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What is the height of the trapezoid?

What is the height of the trapezoid?-example-1
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Answer:

11 units

Explanation:

The height of a trapezoid is the distance between the parallel bases.

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Here, one base lies on the horizontal line y=5, and the other lies on the horizontal line y = -6. The distance between them is ...

5 -(-6) = 5 +6 = 11

You can also find this distance by counting the grid squares between the two parallel lines.

The height of the trapezoid is 11 units.

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Additional comment

The base lengths are ...

AB = 2 -(-5) = 7

CD = 8 -(-7) = 15

The area is 1/2(b1 +b2)h = (1/2)(7 +15)(11) = 121 square units.

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