{"id":20992,"date":"2026-05-25T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-11\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:51:13","slug":"trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-11","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapezium Area with Parallel Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parallel sides of a trapezium are 36 cm and 45 cm, and the height is 8 cm. What is its area?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>44.5 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>12960 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>324 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>648 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-20992","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 (36 + 45) \u00d7 8 = 324 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 324 cm\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"44.5 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"12960 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"324 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"648 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\/20992","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=20992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20992"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20992"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}