{"id":20131,"date":"2026-05-21T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-trapezium-has-parallel-sides-8-cm-and-18-cm-and-height-17-cm-what-is-its-area\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:42:22","slug":"a-trapezium-has-parallel-sides-8-cm-and-18-cm-and-height-17-cm-what-is-its-area","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-trapezium-has-parallel-sides-8-cm-and-18-cm-and-height-17-cm-what-is-its-area\/","title":{"rendered":"A trapezium has parallel sides 8 cm and 18 cm, and height 17 cm. What is its area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trapezium has parallel sides 8 cm and 18 cm, and height 17 cm. What is its area?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>221 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>442 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>144 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>43 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2847],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[2494],"class_list":["post-20131","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area-of-trapezium","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-6"],"mcq_note":"Area of a trapezium = 1\/2 \u00d7 (sum of parallel sides) \u00d7 height = 1\/2 \u00d7 (8+18) \u00d7 17 = 221 cm\u00b2. Choose the correct formula first, substitute the given values carefully, and match the final unit with the type of measurement. The two parallel sides are averaged by adding them and multiplying by 1\/2, then multiplied by the perpendicular height. Be sure to use only the parallel sides in the bracket and write the answer in square units.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"221 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"442 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"144 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"43 cm\u00b2"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2847,"title":"Area of Trapezium","slug":"area-of-trapezium"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}