Problema Solution
Charles has been asked to insert a trapezoid in the floor tiling of the rotunda of the courthouse one base must be 8ft and the height must be 10 ft what general equation can be used to represent the are of the trapezoid as a function of the second base
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A = 1/2(h)(b1 + b2)Formula for the area of a trapezoid
A = 1/2(10)(8 + b2)Substitute given values for height and base 1
A = 5(8 + b2)Simplification
A(b2) = 5(8 + b2) = 40 + 5b2The area as a function of the second base, in factored form or with the 5 distributed and the function written as a linear function.