Question

Stan drew a parallelogram on the grid.

What is the area in square meters of the parallelogram?

A.
42

B.
36

C.
30

D.
24
(picture attached in the next post.)

Answer 1

Picture posted.

Answer 2

What's the length of the base?

Answer 3

count the number of squares in that yellow area...

Answer 4

or you can find the base, then the height and multiply the two values

Answer 5

which is a lot faster... now you know why the formula is the way it is.... :)

Answer 6

I can't count it.

Answer 7

can you count the length of the bottom side of that parallelogram?

Answer 8

I counted 6.

Answer 9

so the base is 6 or b = 6

what about the height?

Answer 10

I counted 3...?

Answer 11

count the largest amount you can for the height (the height is larger than 3)

Answer 12

6?

Answer 13

good, so h = 6


Now use the formula

Area = base*height

A = bh


to find the area of the parallelogram

Answer 14

6x6 = 36.

Answer 15

you got it

Answer 16

Thank you so much!

Answer 17

you're welcome