The answer depends on what you mean by a trapezoidal trough. Is it a trough whose cross-section is a rectangle at any height but which increases linearly with the height or is it a trough whose base and each face is a trapezium.
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You cannot have a trapezoidal cylinder. That is like a square circle - an impossible shape.
To calculate the volume of water in a semicircular trough, one should figure out the area of the cross section (the semicircle) first. Then, this number should be multiplied by the length of the trough.
3
third of base's area by heiht
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