Question

A parallelogram is shown below:

Part A: What is the area of the parallelogram? Show your work. (5 points)

Part B: How can you decompose this parallelogram into two triangles? If this parallelogram was decomposed into two triangles, what would be the area of each triangle? (5 points)

Answer 1

Area of one triangle :3

Area of parallelogram:6

Explanation:

Answer 2

area of whole triangle is 3

area of triangle cut in half is 1.5

Explanation:

Area: (.5)(8)(3/4)=3

Area of each triangle. It would be split down the middle. from a to c

3/2=1.5