Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for November 10, 2015

Go ask your mother. Oh, she said to ask me? OK, you take the area of the large rectangle and subtract the area of the two triangles…then again, you could take the area of the small rectangle and add the area of the two triangles…or you could add the longer and shorter sides and divide by two, then multiply them by the height…, “But Dad, Common Core says….”

height * (bottom width + top width)/2

I can’t see him on the dance floor moving to Freak-A-Zoid.

I have them in my back yard in the summertime they go“EP-OP-ORP-AHA.” Very pleasant sound…….

it’s easier if you just pick up a trapezoid detector at the hardware store…

They’re right next to the magnetic nail pullers…

Has any one ever needed to find this in real life ?

Why of course, if you are a left handed monkey…