The area of a parallelogram is its base times its height.
Step-by-step explanation:
Area is for 2 dimensional shapes. (Shapes with two dimensions in parallelograms they are often referred to as base times height, or length times width). Area is the space inside a two dimensional object, and to find this use the length and the height to find the space in the 2-D figure.
Side note: Volume is "the area of 3 dimensional figures". Three dimensions meaning Length, Width and Height. So there is no area for 3-D figures. (unless you are using Surface Area)
You would get this by first getting the fraction out of the denominator by multiplying the inverse by the numerator. Then you can cross multiply and solve.