Question

A tabletop is in the shape of a trapezoid. The lengths of the trapezoid's parallel sides are 48 inches and 40 inches. The height of the trapezoid is 24 inches.
What is the area of this tabletop?

112 in²
1056 in²
2112 in²
23,040 in²

Answer 1

The equation is
$area = \frac{1}{2} (a + b)h$
If you put in the numbers you get
$area = \frac{1}{2} (48 + 40) \times 24$
This comes to 1056. So the answer is 1056 in^2

Answer 2

The answer would be 1056 in²