Question

He ordered up Tennessee resembles a trapezoid with bases 342 miles and 438 miles and height 111 miles approximately the area of Tennessee by finding the area of the the area of this trapezoid

Answer 1

We can draw the following picture:

where a is the long base, b is the short base and h is the altitude.

The area of a trapezoid is given by

$A=\frac{(a+b)h}{2}$

By susbtituting the given values into the area formula, we get

$\begin{gathered} A=\frac{(438+342)111}{2} \\ A=\frac{(780)111}{2} \\ A=43290mi^2 \end{gathered}$

that is, the area is equal to 43,290 mi^2