Question

James wants to tile his floor using tiles in the shape of a trapezoid to make the pattern a little more interesting he has decided to cut the tiles in half along the median to top base of each time is 12 inches in length and turn bottom base is 16 inches

Answer 1

Answer: 14 inches

Explanation:

Given the following :

James wants to cut a floor tile in the shape of a trapezium with the following dimension :

Top base = 12 inches

Bottom base = 16 inches

To obtain the medan, we take the average of the two bases :

(top base + bottom base) / 2

(12 inches + 16 inches) / 2

28 inches / 2

= 14 inches.