Question

What is the area of a parallelogram with side lengths of 6 and 10 and a 45 degree interior angle?

I know that the formula for area of a parallelogram is base x height. So shouldn't it just be 6x10=60u^2 for the area? What does the interior angle have to do with the question?

Answer 1

Start by drawing a picture. It always helps

Answer 2

(this is a special parallelogram)

Answer 3

Ok so now what is 45 +45?

Answer 4

45+45=90

Answer 5

And yes that correction from @UnkleRhaukus it correct

Answer 6

but, what i was getting at is that if you detach 1 triangle and connect it to the other side you get a rectangle