A parking lot in the shape of a trapezoid has an area of 12,052.1 square meters. The length of one base is 82.4 meters, and the length of the other base is 108.6 meters. What is the width of the parking lot?


Please help this is due online on Edmodo in an hour and was assigned today!

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Let's plug our numbers into the formula for a trapezoid:
12052.1 = ((82.4 + 108.6)/2) * width
12052.1 = (191/2) * width
12052.1 = 95.5 * width
126.2 = width

The width of the parking lot is 126.2 meters