Area of a parallelogram
The question
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Area of a 6 by 17 parallelogram
How it works.
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A parallelogram. You need its base and its height.
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The base is the side it stands on: 6 cm.
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The height is the DASHED line — straight up from the base, at a right angle to it: 17 cm. Not the sloping side.
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Slide the triangle off one end round to the other and it is a rectangle — same base, same height. So there is no halving here: 6 × 17 = 102 square cm.