Question

What is the area of the parallelogram?

Answer 1

The length of the parallelogram is  3/4 ft less 1/8 ft, or 6/8 ft less 1/8 ft, or 5/8 ft.

The width is 1/2 ft.

Thus, the area is (5/8 ft)(1/2 ft) = (5/16) ft^2