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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?

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252 square inches
B
264 square inches
C
288 square inches
D
336 square inches
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What is the area of the kite?

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20 square meters
B
36 square meters
C
40 square meters
D
80 square meters
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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?

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2 cm base, 3 cm height
B
3 cm base, 3 cm height
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3 cm base, 4 cm height
D
3 cm base, 6 cm height
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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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The base of the triangle in Step 1 should be 4 cm.
B
The area of the triangles in Step 3 should be .
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C
The area of the triangle in Step 3 should be doubled since there are 2 triangles.
D
The areas in Step 4 should be multiplied together instead of added together.

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