Question

What is the area of the parallelogram? Show your work. (5 points)

Answer 1

Part A. The formula for finding the area of a parallelogram is A=bh where A is the area, b is the base and h is height.
A=bh where b=8 feet ,h=3/4 foot and A=?
A=8*3/4
A=6 feet The area of the parallelogram is 6 feet square
Part B.You can decompose a parallelogram into two triangles by drawing a diagonal from one end to the another.The formula for finding the area of each triangle is A= 1/2bh where A is area b is base and h is height.Therefore:
A=1/2bh where b=8 h is 3/4 and A=?
A=1/2*8*3/4
A=3 feet square. Therefore the area of each triangle is 3 feet square.