Area of Special Quadrilaterals Answers

A trapezoid was broken into a rectangle and a triangle. What is the length, b, of the base of the triangle?

The front face of a laundry basket is in the shape of a trapezoid as shown. What is the area of the front face of the laundry basket?

What is the area of the trapezoid?

What is the area of the kite?

Two tables, congruent trapezoids, are placed together to make a corner desk, as shown.What is the total area of the surfaces of both tables?

What is the area of the kite?

The point of a square pyramid is cut off, making each lateral face of the pyramid a trapezoid with the dimensions shown.What is the area of one trapezoidal face of the figure?

Quinn is determining the area of a trapezoid. His work is shown below.Step 1: Break the figure into rectangles and triangles.Step 2: Find the area of the rectangle: .Step 3: Find the area of the triangles: .Step 4: Add the areas together: square centimeters.Which best describes Quinn’s error?

Ezra’s dad is building a cover for his sandbox. The sandbox is in the shape of a kite as shown. ’What is the area of the sandbox cover?

Because the lid of a marker is wider than the marker itself, a set of markers can be packaged in a container that is in the shape of a trapezoid instead of a rectangle.What is the difference in area between the two packages?