Question

What is the area of the parallelogram?

Answer 1

Take a close look at this diagram. What is the length of the base of this parallelogram? What is the height of the parallelogram?

Answer 2

1/2 base and 1/3 height

Answer 3

Actually, the base is smaller than 1/2. Take another look at the dark line segment representing the base. How long is that dark line segment? It's less than 1/2.

Answer 4

The height is indeed 1/3. Bingo!

Answer 5

1/6

Answer 6

1/3?

Answer 7

The length of the base is (1/2) - (1/6), and yes, that comes out to (1/3).

So now you know both the base and the height of this parallelogram.
The area of the p. is simply (base) * (height).

Answer 8

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