You find a parallelogram area by this formula:

Where
b is its base and
h, its height.
You get
b's value applying distance between two points formula.
If A and B points form the base:

And
h is the perpendicular distance between both bases.
You can visit next link to know further about it:
https://www.ck12.org/geometry/Distance-Between-Parallel-Lines/lesson/Distance-Between-Parallel-Lines
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And in attached picture you can find an example in progress you may want to finish.
Answer:
1/2
Step-by-step explanation:
The answer is 1/2 because the fraction 4/8 can be simplified into 1/2 because they are the same.
The variation of K is what is found in front of X