Question

Find the area of this parallelogram?

Answer 1

So, the area of a parallelogram is the base times the height or

$a = b \times h$

a being area

b being base

h being height

the height is 8 cm and the base is 15 cm

(remember: the heght should be perpendicular to the base)

so we plug in 8 for h and 15 for b to get

$a = 15 \times 8$

and 15 × 8 = (10 × 8) + (5 × 8) = 80 + 40 =120

So the answer is 120