Trapezoid Area (visual proof)

This is a short animation showing a standard fact about how to find the area of a trapezoid by finding a triangle with the same area.

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Here is a related visual proof for the area of a parallelogram:

   • Parallelogram Area : Side-angle-side ...  

#area #triangle #trapezoid #geometry #visualproof #math #manim

This video was inspired by a beautiful GeoGebra applet created by Tim Brzezinski:

https://www.geogebra.org/m/ZeDN7ZTW

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https://manim.community

Here is the code for this video:
https://github.com/Tom-Edgar/MVPS/blo...

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