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What is the area of the equilateral parallelogram shown in square units?


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Okay Math people We've got a special gram for you

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What is the area of the equal lateral parallelogram shown

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in square units The area of a parallelogram is the

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product of the basin The height sound familiar Yeah Parallelogram

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is really just to congratulate triangle twins snuggling up against

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one another for a warmth or something So while the

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area of one triangles one half b h base times

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height the area of our cute triangle twins is twice

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that or just be aged well the height we confined

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by drawing a perpendicular line like this from one corner

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of the top line of the parallelogram too The bottom

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line the bases to find is the length of that

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bottom line Well are fine Specimen here happens Have a

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base then of five and a height of three So

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it has an area of three times five Which yes

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is fifteen so the answer is d

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