{"id":21080,"date":"2026-05-25T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-15\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:04","slug":"trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-15","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/trapezium-area-with-parallel-sides-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapezium Area with Parallel Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parallel sides of a trapezium are 40 m and 48 m, and the height is 4 m. What is its area?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>46 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>176 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>352 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>7680 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-21080","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 (40 + 48) \u00d7 4 = 176 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 176 m\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"46 m\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"176 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"352 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"7680 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\/21080","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=21080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21080"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21080"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}