Help me please, The area of a parallelogram is 48 ft² after its dimensions were doubled. What is the area of the original parallelogram?

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anonymous · Answer

Dude what makes 48 ft? what two multipliers?

anonymous · Answer

Whats 7*7 49 right? so you are looking at something with 6.9

anonymous · Answer

Now thats the first time it was doubled... so what is half of 6.9? 3.45? thats probably your answer

anonymous · Answer

3.45 * 3.45 dude, you need to start doing the math and stop depending on someone just giving you the answers.... its somwhere between 11.9 and 12 ahah

anonymous · Answer

The area is probably 24 before you doubled it

anonymous · Answer

Yeah I realized  how easy this was and did it then forgot to close, thank you anyways Niko552.

mrnood · Answer

@Mttblink
this is a parallelogram - not a square - so you cannot derive the sides from the area.

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If you halve  b AND halve h   (you were told the 'dimensions are doubled) the n the area of the original is

$$\frac{ b }{ 2 }\times \frac{ h }{ 2 }$$

compare that with b x h

All the answers above are not correct

mrnood · Answer

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