ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Math Videos 91 videos
What is the area of the square in square units?
What is the length of the line segment?
What is the distance between the points (-5, 3) and (3, 9)?
ACT Aspire Math: Solving for a Trapezoid's Area Using Its Height 2 Views
Share It!
Description:
If the area of the trapezoid is 21, what is its height h? Use the formula A =
for the area of a trapezoid.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Math people What time is it It's trap is
- 00:06
oid time You know the most boring time of the
- 00:08
day All right If the area the traps are twenty
- 00:10
one what's the height H use formula a equals base
- 00:14
one plus based teo over two times height for the
Full Transcript
- 00:17
area of trap is oid art That's fancy formula So
- 00:23
let's think about this The area the trap is always
- 00:25
given bhaiyya this little formal here where h is the
- 00:27
perpendicular hide of the prop is oi that's this part
- 00:30
That's the age Well the diagram shows that base one
- 00:33
plus based to over two is five plus nine over
- 00:37
two We're just plugging in charging the numbers they gave
- 00:39
us on that's fourteen over to which is seven So
- 00:42
a little bit of reverse engineering gives us that seven
- 00:44
times eight is twenty one and then h is twenty
- 00:47
one over seven or three So the height is three
- 00:50
answers See Okay now we've got that down It'll be
- 00:52
a cinch to help this guy figure out what sure 00:00:54.256 --> [endTime] best fits his body type
Related Videos
Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?
Lucy runs to the edge of Kensington Gardens because...
Immediately before Lucy lays her hand on her father's knee, she was...
In contrast to Lucy's reaction to the lady, Mr. Rayburn's reaction is characterized by:
Mr. Rayburn is most likely reading the newspaper in order to: