Mr. Morris is going to save money and replace his sailboat's mainsail himself. He must determine the area of the mainsail in order to buy the correct amount of material. Calculate the area of the parallelogram to determine how much material should be purchased. Be sure to explain how to decompose this shape into rectangles and triangles. Describe their dimensions and show your work.

Parallelogram with base of 15 feet, height of 10 feet, and triangular base of 2 feet.

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Mr. Morris is going to save money and replace his sailboat's mainsail himself. He must determine the area of the mainsail in order to buy the correct amount of material. Calculate the area of the parallelogram to determine how much material should be purchased. Be sure to explain how to decompose this shape into rectangles and triangles. Describe their dimensions and show your work.

Parallelogram with base of 15 feet, height of 10 feet, and triangular base of 2 feet.

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Pusheen · Answer

I think the areas are pretty self-explanatory but here they are anyway.
The area of a triangle is 1/2 x base x height
The area of a rectangle is length x width
Basically you can explain in your assignment that you can divide the shape into 3 sections, as shown in the pic. 
And yeah that’s pretty much it.
Got any questions feel free to ask.
- Pusheen

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