Call the point of intersection of the diagonals point X.
Each base is the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle whose sides are the diagonals and whose 90° angle is at X. The altitude of that triangle (⊥ distance to the base from X) is half the length of the hypotenuse. Then the height of the trapezoid is half the sum of the base lengths.
The area of the trapezoid is the product of the height and half the sum of the base lengths, hence is the square of half the sum of the base lengths.
... Area = ((16 cm +30 cm)/2)² = (23 cm)² = 529 cm²
Total weight of three items is 2.875 pounds
<em><u>Solution:</u></em>
Given that,
Maya is packing her backpack for hike
From given,
<em><u>How much weight do these three items add to her backpack?</u></em>
Add all these together
Thus total weight of three items is 2.875 pounds
Division yields
Now for partial fractions: you're looking for constants <em>a</em>, <em>b</em>, and <em>c</em> such that
which gives <em>a</em> + <em>b</em> = 2, <em>c</em> = 0, and 2<em>a</em> = -7, so that <em>a</em> = -7/2 and <em>b</em> = 11/2. Then
Now, in the integral we get
The first two terms are trivial to integrate. For the third, substitute <em>y</em> = <em>x</em> ² + 2 and d<em>y</em> = 2<em>x</em> d<em>x</em> to get