Thursday, March 21, 2013

Derive Area Formula for a Trapezoid

Use Triangles to derive the formula for a trapezoid

So we denote the trapezoid area as A-sub-T and subtract the area of the small triangle on top from the entire triangle. We can also use the idea of similar triangles to replace parameters from the top triangle.
Finally we rename h-sub-2 as h so that it looks more familiar.





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