What is the area of the parallelogram?

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tackopp · Answer

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mathmale · Answer

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

tackopp · Answer

1/2 base and 1/3 height

mathmale · Answer

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.

mathmale · Answer

The height is indeed 1/3.  Bingo!

tackopp · Answer

1/6

tackopp · Answer

1/3?

mathmale · Answer

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).

mathmale · Answer

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