{"id":20890,"date":"2026-05-25T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-6\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:48","slug":"trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-6","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapezium Area with Parallel Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parallel sides of a trapezium are 27 cm and 37 cm, and the height is 7 cm. What is its area?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>35.5 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>448 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>224 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>6993 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-20890","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 (27 + 37) \u00d7 7 = 224 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 224 cm\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"35.5 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"448 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"224 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"6993 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\/20890","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=20890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20890"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20890"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}