SOLUTION: The parallel sides of a trapezium are in the ratio 2:3 and the area of the trapezium is 125 cm square. The distance between the parallel lines is 10cm. Find the length of the paral
Algebra.Com
Question 1010698: The parallel sides of a trapezium are in the ratio 2:3 and the area of the trapezium is 125 cm square. The distance between the parallel lines is 10cm. Find the length of the parallel sides of the trapezium.
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The formula for the area of a trapezoid is
A = (h/2)(b1 + b2)
Here h = 10, b1 = 2/3(b2), and A = 125...now plug in
125 = (10/2)(b + (2/3)b)
25 = (5/3)b
b = 15 cm
2/3 b = 10 cm
RELATED QUESTIONS
the parallel sides of a trapezium are 11 cm and 13cm if the area of the trapezium is... (answered by ikleyn)
Two Parallel sides DC & AB of a trapezium are 12 cm and 36 cm respectively. If non... (answered by Edwin McCravy)
The area of a trapezium is 168m and the distance between the parallel sides is 8m. Find... (answered by psbhowmick)
the length of the two parallel sides of a trapezium are 36cm and 64cm.what is the area of (answered by ohtheirony)
The area of a trapezium is 364-5 sq.m.Its parallel sides are in the ratio 5:4.If... (answered by mananth)
The figure below is a trapezium in which AB=40 cm, BC=25 cm, CD=12 cm and AD=17 cm.... (answered by greenestamps)
find the area of a trapezium whose parallel sides are 7CM and 9cm long and whose altitude (answered by mananth)
the parallel side of trapezium is 30cm and 20cm long. the distance between the parallel... (answered by ikleyn)
If one of the parallel sides of a trapezoid (trapezium in the UK)
is 2.3 cm, the height... (answered by Edwin McCravy)