{"id":165223,"date":"2024-03-22T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=165223"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:18:15","slug":"the-area-of-a-trapezium-is-180-and-its-height-is-9-cm-if-one-of-the-parallel-sides-is-longer-than-the-other-by-6-cm-find-the-two-parallel-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-area-of-a-trapezium-is-180-and-its-height-is-9-cm-if-one-of-the-parallel-sides-is-longer-than-the-other-by-6-cm-find-the-two-parallel-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"The area of a trapezium is 180\u00a0and its height is 9 cm. If one of the parallel sides is longer than the other by 6 cm, find the two parallel sides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The area of a trapezium is 180\u00a0and its height is 9 cm. If one of the parallel sides is longer than the other by 6 cm, find the two parallel sides<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15 cm, 21 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 14 cm, 20 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 17 cm, 23 cm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 12 cm, 18 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let one of the parallel sides be x cm. and other be (x + 6) cm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Area of a trap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-1024x251.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165227\" style=\"width:220px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-1024x251.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-768x188.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-1536x376.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-2048x501.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-613x150.png 613w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-100x24.png 100w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-1430x350.png 1430w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218-788x192.png 788w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-218.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>40 = 2x + 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=&gt;x=17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two parallel sides are 17cm and 23 cm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The area of a trapezium is 180\u00a0and its height is 9 cm. If one of the parallel sides is longer than the other by 6 cm, find the two parallel sides a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15 cm, 21 cm b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 14 cm, 20 cm c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 17 cm, 23 cm d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 12 cm, 18 cm Sol: Let one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":165234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-165223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantitative-aptitude","tag-quantitative-aptitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165235,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165223\/revisions\/165235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165223"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=165223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}