Find the area of parallelogram ABCD given m A = 30 and the following measures.

AB = 10 in.; AD = 6 in.
A=

30 in.²
30√3 in.²
60 in.²

Question

Find the area of parallelogram ABCD given m A = 30 and the following measures.

AB = 10 in.; AD = 6 in. 
A=

30 in.²
30√3 in.²
60 in.²

iGreen · Answer

Hi there! Is there an image?

lissa420 · Answer

There is not

iGreen · Answer

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Something like this?

lissa420 · Answer

Yes. That is very similar to what they are talking about. I just don't know how to solve this.

iGreen · Answer

Okay, we could slice it diagonally.

iGreen · Answer

Actually, I'll do that the other way around.

iGreen · Answer

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iGreen · Answer

These two triangles are congruent, so we can just find the area of one of them and then multiply by 2 to find the area of the paralellogram.

lissa420 · Answer

Okay. Thank you!