How do you find the area of this (it is not 12 or 18) The First answer gets brainliest

Answer:
ok the area of a trapezoid is 48
a+b divided by two multiplied by height
Step-by-step explanation:
each square equals 2 so you count by twos instead of ones..
the height is 8 the base is 8 and the top is 4 so
4+8/2=6
6*8=48