The shape of the top surface of a table is a trapezium. Find its area if its parallel sides are 1 m and 1.2 m and perpendicular distance between them is 0.8 m.

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Book: NCERT - Mathematics

Chapter: 11. Mensuration

Subject: Maths - Class 8^th

Q. No. 1 of Exercises 11.2

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The shape of the top surface of a table is a trapezium. Find its area if its parallel sides are 1 m and 1.2 m and perpendicular distance between them is 0.8 m.

Area of trapezium = 1/2 (a + b) × h

Here, a = 1.2m, b = 1m, h = 0.8m, thus

Area = 1/2 × (1.2 + 1) × 0.8

= 0.88 m²

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Chapter Exercises

Exercises 11.1

Exercises 11.2

Exercises 11.3

Exercises 11.4

1

The shape of the top surface of a table is a trapezium. Find its area if its parallel sides are 1 m and 1.2 m and perpendicular distance between them is 0.8 m.

2

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3

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4

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5

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6

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7

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8

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9

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10

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11

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