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 kite?

Alexa is designing a paper airplane whose final shape, when viewed from the top or bottom, is a trapezoid. A sketch of her plane, viewed from the top, is shown on the left.What are the dimensions of one of the identical triangular pieces of the plane?

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?


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