{"id":20782,"date":"2026-05-25T05:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:28","slug":"trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapezium Area with Parallel Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parallel sides of a trapezium are 31 m and 40 m, and the height is 11 m. What is its area?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>390.5 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>41 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>13640 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>781 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2847,2874],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-20782","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area-of-trapezium","topic-plane-figures","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Area of a trapezium = 1\/2 \u00d7 (sum of parallel sides) \u00d7 height. So area = 1\/2 \u00d7 (31 + 40) \u00d7 11 = 390.5 square m. A trapezium has two parallel sides, so first add those two sides, then multiply by the height, and finally take half. The height must be the perpendicular distance between the parallel sides. So the correct choice is 390.5 m\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"390.5 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"41 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"13640 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"781 m\u00b2"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2847,"title":"Area of Trapezium","slug":"area-of-trapezium"},{"id":2874,"title":"Plane Figures","slug":"plane-figures"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20782","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=20782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20782"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20782"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}