Question

Find the area of a trapezium whose parallel sides are $6cm$ and $10cm$ long and the distance between them is $4cm$.

Answer 1

Area of a trapezium is given by $=\frac{1}{2}\times \left(Sumofparallelsides\right)\times height$

$\therefore$Area$=\frac{1}{2}\times (6+10)\times 4$
$=32$ sq.cm