The area of the trapezoid ABCD is equal to 60. The length of one of of the bases is 9 units greater than the other base, and the height of trapezoid ABCD is equal to 8. What is the legth of the median of trapezoid ABCD
+240 To find the bases, we can plug in our known values with x being the smaller base,
2x+92⋅8=60
2x+92=7.5
2x+9=15
x=3
The smaller base is 3, and the larger is 12. The median of a trapezoid is just the average of the bases. So (3+12)/2 = 7.5 which is our answer.
