Learning Task 4: Solve the following word problems.
1. Mr. Pablo bought a residential lot. The lot is in the shape of a trapezoid as shown in the illustration. What is the area of
the lot?
12 m
10 m
20 m
2. Maria Ailyn bought a lot in a parallelogram shape. Its base is 24 meters and its height is 16 meters. What is the area of the
lot?
3. A garden inside a park has the shape of a trapezoid. Its bases are 10 meters and 16 meters. The perpendicular distance
between these bases is 12 meters. What is the area of the garden?
4. A triangular garden has a base of 20 meters and a height of 16 meters. Find its area.
