quick help how to find the area of a traezium

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AIBU in not knowing how to work this out lol only covered briefly in class and he has looked it up on a maths site but says ask mumsnet as they are real people (LOL) and they know better . TIA

this seems to cover it pretty well

YANBU to not know that

area = (half the sum of the parallel sides) x (perpendicular distance between parallel sides)

YABU to let him think this is a good way to do his hwk rather than finding it out for himself using google!

Divide the amount of clowns by the acrobatic troup, add 7 and subtract the number of high wire acts.

HTH

lol SG

Draw lines to divide it into 2 triangles and a rectangle. Add area of rectangle to twice the area of one triangle (ie the area of 2 triangles = a rectangle made out of the 2 ends) then it should equate to p73's response.

thank you so much I understood ..A great help

shirley thats what I was thinking but it was the stray camel and elephant that confused me .

penguin its my fault he thinks MN is the font of all knowledge all he sees is me on here . bless his cotton socks .

Nearly posted this myself last night
My maths knowledge has big gaping holes in it sadly.

gaping holes my knowledge is a bloomin obiss lol