Compose a rectangle to help to find the area of trapezoid in square inches what is the area of the tabletop
To find the area of a trapezoid, you can use the formula:
Area = 1/2 * (b1 + b2) * h
Where b1 and b2 are the lengths of the two parallel bases, and h is the height of the trapezoid.
To illustrate this, imagine a rectangle split into two smaller rectangles, one with base b1 and height h, and the other with base b2 and height h. The total area of the rectangle would be the sum of the areas of these two smaller rectangles, which equals:
Area = b1 * h + b2 * h
Since the total area of the rectangle is equal to the area of the trapezoid, you can use this rectangle as a visual aid to help calculate the area of the trapezoid.
If the area of the tabletop is 50 square inches, then you can calculate the individual bases and height of the trapezoid using the given dimensions of the tabletop. Once you have those values, you can plug them into the formula above to find the area of the trapezoid.