The area of a trapezoid is one half the product of the height and the sum of the bases.
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The area of a trapezoid is one half the product of its height and the sum of its bases. In the given diagram, we can see that the lengths of the bases are 4 and 10 meters and the height is 6 meters.
Since we have the height and the lengths of the bases, we can substitute them into the formula for the area of a trapezoid.