A trapezoid has two parallel sides of different lengths, so you use their average as the width. Average the two bases, multiply by the height, and the answer is the same as a rectangle of that average width.
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Find the area of a trapezoid with bases 6and 10 and height 4
The bases average to 8.
8 times the height 4 is 32.
The answer is 32.
Where students go wrong
Using a slanted side as the height. The height is the perpendicular distance between the two parallel sides, not the length of the leg joining them.
Also called area of trapezoids or trapezoid area formula.
Questions about these worksheets
Yes. Every area of a trapezoid sheet is free to print and free to download as a PDF. There is no account to make, no email to hand over and no limit on how many you take.
Yes. The answer key prints on a second page, and you can choose whether it shows each question beside its answer or just the answers in a list.
Yes. Print straight from the page, or download the PDF and print that. The sheet is laid out for paper rather than squeezed off a screen, so there is room to work under each question, and the answer key comes out on its own page.
Geometry is usually taken around 9th or 10th grade, though schools vary and plenty of students meet it earlier or later. Pick the difficulty rather than the grade: the easy level suits a first lesson on it, the hard level suits review before a test.
Yes, as many as you like. The questions are built fresh each time rather than picked from a fixed set of files, so pressing Generate gives a new sheet. That is what you want for a second class, a retake, or two students sitting next to each other.
That is the closest comparison, and Kuta Software is good software. It is also paid software you install on a computer. These worksheets run in a browser tab for free, with no account and nothing to install. Like Kuta, the area of a trapezoid questions are generated when you ask for them rather than pulled from a fixed set of files, so two classes never get the same sheet, and the answer key comes with it.
Yes. There are two levels, and you can tick more than one for a sheet that mixes them, in which case the questions come out easiest first. The harder levels are not just larger numbers: they ask for something the easy ones do not.
Using a slanted side as the height. The height is the perpendicular distance between the two parallel sides, not the length of the leg joining them.