Question

The area of the parallelogram shown is 4 mm^2. What is the perimeter? Show your work.

Answer 1

help me please

Answer 2

Are you familiar with the area of a parallelogram formula?

Answer 3

yes can you please give me the answer i need to get this done in 20 min and i have 15 more question

Answer 4

I'll help get there, but I can't just give you the answer.

Answer 5

ok then help me

Answer 6

help get you there*

Answer 7

What is the area of a parallelogram?

Answer 8

Any ideas?

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

It's basically the same as a rectangle


Area = base * height

Answer 11

What's the height in this case?

Answer 12

dude please help me my moms friend is going to be here in like 3 min and we both dont know what to do and we need to get it done please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 13

I'm trying to help you through it so you can answer these on your own.

Answer 14

So looking at the figure, the height is what?

Answer 15

7mm

Answer 16

good, so h = 7

Answer 17

The base is what?

Answer 18

idk it doesnt say

Answer 19

so we let that be unknown for now

So b = x

Answer 20

Therefore,

A = b*h

A = x*7

A = 7x

Answer 21

What's the given area?

Answer 22

14mm

Answer 23

That's the length of one side, not the area

Answer 24

actually, nvm 10 is that length

Answer 25

read it again its 14mm^2

Answer 26

hmm it says 4 mm^2 at the top

Answer 27

opps that is wrong its 14mm i forgot to put a 1

Answer 28

So A = 14

Answer 29

and

A = 7x

becomes

14 = 7x

solve this for x

What do you get?

Answer 30

what do you mean

Answer 31

What do you get when you solve 14 = 7x for x?

Answer 32

idk

Answer 33

7 times what number = 14 ?

Answer 34

2

Answer 35

good, so the base is 2

Answer 36

Since we have a parallelogram, we know that the opposite sides are equal, so we know that