Question

What is the area of the parallelogram?

A parallelogram with base of 14 inches and height of 8 inches. Another side is 10 inches.

Answer 1

Intermediate Geometry : How to find the length of the side of a parallelogram

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Find The Length Of The Side Of A Parallelogram : Example Question #1

Find the perimeter of the following box in inches:

Geo_box

Possible Answers:

12x+7y

xy+7x+12y+84

84xy

2x+2y+38

x+y+19

Correct answer:

2x+2y+38

Explanation:

The answer is 2x+2y+38.

You can find the perimeter by adding all of its respective sides as such:

(12+x)+(12+x)+(7+y)+(7+y).

Adding like terms will result in

2x+2y+38

If you chose xy+7x+12y+84, you multiplied the two sides to find the area.

If you chose x+y+19, you only added two sides. Perimeter involves all 4 sides; so double the width and length.

Just remember, the width is 12 added to x. Not 12 times the side of x.

Hope it helps u