What is the area of a parallelogram that has a base of 6 inches and a height of 3 inches?

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Dahlia S. · Stefan V.
Jan 12, 2018

18 square inches

Explanation:

The formula to find the area of a parallelogram is base times height. It is easy to see how this works in parallelograms with only #90^o# angles(i.e. rectangles), but it also works for parallelograms with different angles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelogram

In this image, you can see that every parallelogram can be rearranged (in a sense) to become a rectangle, which is why you can use the same formula to determine its area.

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