SOLUTION: A farmer has fenced off a section of his land for a pigpen. The section of land can be described as a polygon with vertices W(7, 12), X(14,12), Y(17, 7), Z(2, 7) . if each unit rep
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Question 1141316: A farmer has fenced off a section of his land for a pigpen. The section of land can be described as a polygon with vertices W(7, 12), X(14,12), Y(17, 7), Z(2, 7) . if each unit represents one foot, what is the area of the pigpen?
Answer by greenestamps(13198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The y values of W and X are the same, so WX is a horizontal segment; likewise for Y and Z. So WXYZ is a trapezoid (opposite sides are parallel).
The area of a trapezoid is the height, multiplied by the average of the two bases.
The bases are WX and YZ; the height is the difference between the y coordinates of the two parallel sides.
Plug in the numbers....
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