Question 1135106: ABCD is a trapezium with right angles at B and C, AB=5cm DC=12cm and the area of the trapezium is 34cm. Calculate ADC. Show diagram
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source):
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The instruction "calculate ADC" is very poorly stated, and not clear. The only interpretation that seems to make sense is it means "determine the measure of angle ADC". So I will assume that is the question....
Here is a diagram: right angles at B and C; AB=5 and DC=12.
I've added point E on DC to make ABCE a rectangle.
The area of the trapezoid, 34, is the height, BC, times the average of the tow bases, AB and CD. Given AB=5 and CD=12, the height of the trapezoid is 4.
With AB=CE=5 and CD=12, DE=7; then with AE=BC=4, the measure of angle ADC is
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