Question

How do you find the area of a parallelogram without the height?

Answer 1

Without using the height, you can use trigonometry ...

Explanation:

Area of a parallelogram `=(ab)sin(C)`

Where a and b are the lengths of the sides and C is the included angle.

Using the example below, the area is ...

`Area=(10)(16)sin60^o~~139`

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