(05.02)Alex wants to paint one side of his skateboard ramp with glow-in-the-dark paint, but he needs to know how much area he is painting. Calculate the area of the isosceles trapezoid.

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step-by-step explanation:

b

the answer to this is a. a^2 + b^2 = c^2

8.75

how-to:

first, we need to find what we have to work with.

since i know that we have 7 (years) and 0.8 (inches), we can use these to solve and find the equation!

secondly, what you want to do, is see that we need to know how much growth out of the 0.8 inches he got in only 1 year, instead of 7 years.

let's try to divide.

7 ÷ 0.8 = 8.75