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no, its an actual application. Designing unique sediment traps for a VDOT job. I needed to determine the storage capacity based on the contributing area from a storm event. I am trying to create an excel spreadsheet that will output usable information in each sediment trap's analysis. sounds...

Thanks LCKrutz. This is what I needed to know.

Thank you for your response. However, I am confused. When you say "area of a parallel trapezoidal cross-section", do you mean volume between two parallel areas? Thanks.

I am designing a trapezoidal prism basin that must contain a certain volume per acres contributing to the basin. Therefore, I would like to create a function that will size the basin. My question is: how can I determine the volume between two different areas? In this case these two areas...