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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid

Find the area of a trapezoid given bases of length 6 and 7 and height of 2.

Possible Answers:

$\frac{13}{2}$

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve, simply use the formula for the area of a trapezoid.

Substitute

B1=6, B2=7, h=2

into the area formula.

Thus,

$A=\frac{1}{2}(B1+B2)h=\frac{1}{2}(6+7)*2=6+7=13$

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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid

Suppose the lengths of the bases of a trapezoid are 1 and 5 respectively. The altitude of the trapezoid is 4. What is the diagonal of the trapezoid?

Possible Answers:

$\sqrt{39}$

$\sqrt{17}$

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The altitude of the trapezoid splits the trapezoid into two right triangles and a rectangle. Choose one of those right triangles. The base length of that right triangle is necessary to solve for the diagonal.

Using the base lengths of the trapezoid, the length of the base of the right triangle can be solved. The length of the rectangle is 1 unit. The longer length of the trapezoid base is 5 units.

Since there are 2 right triangles bases that lie on the longer base of the trapezoid, we will assume that their base lengths are since their lengths are unknown. Combining the lengths of the right triangles and the rectangle, write the equation to solve for the length of the right triangle bases.

x+1+x=5

2x=4

x=2

The length of each triangular base is 2.

The diagonal of the trapezoid connects from either bottom angle of the trapezoid to the far upper corner of the rectangle. This diagonal connects to form another right triangle, where the sum of the solved triangular base and the rectangle length is a leg, and the altitude of the trapezoid is another leg.

$\textup{Sum of a triangular base and the rectangle length= }2+1=3$

$\textup{Altitude of trapezoid= }4$

Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for the diagonal.

a^2+b^2=c^2

3^2+4^2=c^2

25=c^2

c=5

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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid

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If the height of the trapezoid above is units, what is the length of the diagonal $\overline{BC}$ ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the diagonal, we must subtract the top base from the bottom base:

14-10=4

This leaves us with 4, which is the sum of the distance to the left and right of the top base. Taking half of that $\left(\frac{4}{2}=2\right)$ gives us the length of the distance to only the left side.

This means that the base of a triangle that includes that diagonal is equal to

2+10=12 .

Since the height is , we can solve this problem either using the Pythagorean Theorum or by remembering that this is a special right triangle ( 5-12-13 triangle). Therefore, the hypotenuse is .

See the figure below for clarification:

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Example Question #3 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid

A trapezoid has bases of length and and side lengths of and . What is the upper non-inclusive limit of the trapezoid's diagonal length?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The upper limit of a trapezoid's diagonal length is determined by the lengths of the larger base and larger side because the larger base, larger side and longest diagonal form a triangle, meaning you can use a triangle's side length rule.

Specifically, the non-inclusive upper limit will be the sum of the larger base and larger side.

In this case, 10 + 8 = 18 , meaning that the diagonal length can go up to but not including .

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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Trapezoid

Given the height of a trapezoid is and a base length is , what is the length of the other base if the area of the trapezoid is ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Write the formula used to find the area of a trapezoid.

$A=\frac{1}{2}h(b1+b2)$

Substitute the given information to the formula and solve for the unknown base.

$10=\frac{1}{2}(1)(1+b2)$

20=1+b2

b2=19

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Example Question #2 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Trapezoid

ABCD is an isosceles trapezoid that is bisected by $\overline{EF}$ .

$\overline{AB} \left | \right | \overline{EF} \left | \right | \overline{DC}$ . If $\overline{AE} = 4$ , $\overline{ED} = 6$ , and $\overline{DC} = 18$ , then what is the length of $\overline{EF}$ ?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

We know that all three horizontal lines are parallel to one another. By definition, we can set up a ratio between the lengths of the sides provided to us in the question and the lengths of the two parallel lines:

$\frac{AE}{ED} = \frac{EF}{DC}$

Once we substitute the given information, we get

$\frac{4}{6}=\frac{EF}{18}$

We cross multiply to solve for EF

$EF = \frac{(4)(18)}{6}$

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ACT Math : Trapezoids

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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid

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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid

Example Question #3 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Trapezoid

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