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Ivenika [448]
2 years ago
15

Why is there a 1/2 in this formula for the area of a trapezoid?

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1 answer:
aleksandrvk [35]2 years ago
7 0

A simple answer is that any given trapezoid with height h and length of the parallel lines a and b, is half of a parallelogram with an area of (a+b) x h. Since the trapezoid is half of this, it is h(a+b)/2

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