Question

ABCD is a trapezium. AB is 24 units, DC 16 units and AD is 48 units. the diagonals are drawn and intersect at P. determine the perpendicular distance PE from P to AD

Answer 1

give me a sec.
i'll try to figure how to this...

Answer 2

so the figure will look like this?

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

i'm not sure if the figure if right, i'm confused with a trapezoid and trapezium..
do you know the difference?

Answer 5

they are the same but the figure is correct

Answer 6

ok..but what i know is the other shoud have one pair of parallel side, one doesn't have..
i don't know which one is which..
btw, i'll just assume it has one pair parallel sides.

Answer 7

okay if you can just help me out ill appreciate it and i can assume the answer would be correct

Answer 8

sorry..... i tried.. but i keep getting different answers, i'm not sure which one is the right one..

@Luigi0210 @hartnn @Hero can you guys help?

Answer 9

ok give me one solution and i'll figure it out

Answer 10

or can u give me what u got