Question

Andrea has a yard shaped like parallelogram ABCD. The garden area, parallelogram EFGB, has an area of 105 ft2004-05-02-04-00_files/i0170000.jpg. If Andrea wants to sod the rest of her yard, how many square feet of sod should she order?

Answer 1

The area of a parallelogram is simply calculated using the formula:

A = b * h

Where,

b = length of the base = 45 ft

h = height which is perpendicular to the base = 21 ft

Using the formula, we calculate the total area of the yard.

A = b* h

A = 45 ft * 21 ft

A = 945 ft^2

Now we don’t want to sod the Garden area for the most obvious reason. The garden has an Area of 105 ft^2, we subtract this to the total area giving us,

Area to sod = 945 ft^2 – 105ft^2

Area to sod = 840 ft^2