Question

Can someone answer this please

Answer 1

Answer:  24 square meters

The notation "m^2" is a shorthand way of saying "square meters".

Chances are you'll simply type in the number and leave out the units, as that's already taken care of.

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Work Shown:

area = base*height

area = 8*3

area = 24 square meters

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Explanation:

We simply multiply the base 8 and height 3 and that's our answer. It's not a trick question even if it might seem like it.

The side that's 7 meters long is never used. The base and height are always perpendicular to one another, which means that they form a right angle (aka 90 degree angle).

The area formula of a parallelogram and rectangle are the same. We can think of a non-rectangular parallelogram as a slanted rectangle in a sense. Imagine you had stacks of blocks to form a rectangle. Now imagine nudging that stack slightly to one side. The blocks themselves don't change, so the area of one wall doesn't change. All that's changed is the shape.