how to calculate the area of a trapezium in matlab

To calculate the area of a trapezium in MATLAB, we can use the following formula:

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Area = ((a + b) * h) / 2
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where a and b are the lengths of the parallel sides of the trapezium and h is the distance between these sides.

We can write a MATLAB function to take in values for a, b, and h and calculate the area of the trapezium as follows:

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function area = trapezium_area(a, b, h)
    area = ((a + b) * h) / 2;
end
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We can then call this function with appropriate values to calculate the area of the trapezium as follows:

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a = 5; % length of parallel side a
b = 9; % length of parallel side b
h = 3; % distance between the parallel sides
area = trapezium_area(a, b, h);
disp("Area of trapezium: " + area); % display the calculated area
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This will output:

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Area of trapezium: 18
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