Question

A window in Michael's room is the shape of a trapezoid. The bases are 30 inches and 40 inches. The height of the window is 24 inches. Find the area of the window.

Answer 1

Answer:

The area of the window is of 840 square inches.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the area of an trapezoid, we need to add the sum of the bases, multiply by the height, and then divide by 2.

Matematically:

$A = \frac{(b_{1} + b_{2})*h}{2}$

In which $b_{1}$ and $b_{2}$ are the bases and h is the height.

In this question:

$b_{1} = 30, b_{2} = 40, h = 24$

All the measures in inches, so the area is in square inches.

$A = \frac{(30 + 40)*24}{2} = 840$

The area of the window is of 840 square inches.