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What is the area of a trapezoid with bases 14 cm and 18 cm and height 10 cm?

Answer 1

Noah Atkinson

See a solution process below:

The formula for the area of a trapezoid is:

Substituting the values in the problem into the formula and calculating #A# gives:

#A = (14"cm" + 18"cm")/2 xx 10"cm"#

#A = (32"cm")/2 xx 10"cm"#

#A = 16"cm" xx 10"cm"#

#A = 160"cm"^2#

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Answer 2

Savannah Aguilar

The area of a trapezoid can be calculated using the formula:

[ \text{Area} = \frac{1}{2} \times (\text{sum of the lengths of the bases}) \times (\text{height}) ]

Using the given values:

[ \text{Area} = \frac{1}{2} \times (14 + 18) \times 10 ]

[ = \frac{1}{2} \times 32 \times 10 ]

[ = 160 , \text{cm}^2 ]

So, the area of the trapezoid is 160 square centimeters.

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