Question

A parallelogram is shown below:

A parallelogram ABCD is shown with DC equal to 9 feet and the perpendicular distance between AB and DC equal to 8 over 9 foot.

Part A: What is the area of the parallelogram? Show your work. (5 points)

Part B: How can you decompose this parallelogram into two triangles? If this parallelogram was decomposed into two triangles, what would be the area of each triangle? (5 points)

Answer 1

Answer:

thebecks

h =2

area of triangle = 16x9x0.5= 72 cm^2

area of parallelogram = 72 x 5 = 360 cm^2

area of parallelogram = base x height(h)

360 = 30h

divide both sides by 30

h = 12