In Exercises find and/or verify the centroid of the common region used in engineering.

Find the centroid of the trapezoid with vertices (0, 0), (0, a), (c, b), and (c, 0). Show that it is the intersection of the line connecting the midpoints of the parallel sides and the line connecting the extended parallel sides, as shown in the figure.

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y (0, a) (0, 0) (c, b) (c, 0) X