Trapezoid

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A trapezoid (British: trapezium) is a four-sided polygon with two parallel sides.

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The following properties arise from the definition:

  • Two of the pairs of adjacent angles sum to 180o
  • The area of the trapezium is the average of the parallel sides multipleied by the distance between them.