Question

The tabletops in a restaurant are parallelograms and rectangles with the same distance between parallel sides. The approximate side lengths are shown.

Is the area of a parallelogram-shaped tabletop the same as the area of a rectangular one?

Answer 1

Answer:

Since the two triangles are congruent,they also have the same area. Thus, adding the triangle to the part that the parallelogram and the Rectangle have in common ,it concludes that the area of the Rectangle is equal to the Parallelogram