{"id":20826,"date":"2026-05-25T05:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-3\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:29","slug":"trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-3","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapezium Area with Parallel Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parallel sides of a trapezium are 33 cm and 39 cm, and the height is 5 cm. What is its area?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>6435 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>38.5 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>360 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>180 cm\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-20826","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 (33 + 39) \u00d7 5 = 180 square cm. 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 180 cm\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"6435 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"38.5 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"360 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"180 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"},{"id":2874,"title":"Plane Figures","slug":"plane-figures"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20826","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=20826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20826"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20826"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}