Question

A parallelogram is shown below:

A parallelogram ABCD is shown with DC equal to 8 feet and the perpendicular distance between AB and DC equal to 3 over 4 foot.


If this parallelogram was decomposed into two triangles, what would be the area of each triangle?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

ok

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

So what;s the length of AB ?

Answer 7

8

Answer 8

do you know how to find out the area of parallelogram or triangle ?

Answer 9

1/2*b*h=?

Answer 10

cuz now we can find out the area of both parallelogram and triangle. Doesn;'t care which one to start.

Answer 11

ok

Answer 12

That's for a triangle.
What's the formula for the area of a parallelogram?

Answer 13

that's for right triangles.

Answer 14

\[A=\frac{ 1 }{ 2 } b*h\]is true for ALL triangles.

Answer 15

ok

Answer 16

did you solve the problem ?

Answer 17

im working on it

Answer 18

\[8/1*3/4=24/4=6\]

Answer 19

correct

Answer 20

thank u for helping

Answer 21

area of parallelogram=base *height

Answer 22

no problem