Trapezoid Area Visual Proof @MathVisualProofs

Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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 the original video in wide-format, wordless, with dramatic music:
youtu.be/4ZypJJmd5ZY

Here is a related visual proof for the area of a parallelogram:
youtu.be/QjWbBexfJvw

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

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

geogebra.org/m/ZeDN7ZTW

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