Question

A parking lot has 916 parking spaces that are shaped like parallelograms. The base of each space is 10 feet, and the height of each space is 18.5 feet. What is the total area of the parking spaces?

Answer 1

169,460 ft²

Explanation:

Answer 2

169,460 ft²

Explanation:

The formula for the area of a parallelogram is:

A = bh, where b = measure of the base and h = measure of the height

Given that each space is 10 ft x 18.5 ft, each space has an area:

A = (10)(18.5) = 185 ft²

Since there are 916 total parking spaces, we can take the area of one and multiply by the total amount:

185 x 916 = 169,460 ft²