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HELP PLEASE!

A parallelogram with sides of 6 and 10 has an area of 30 sqrt of 2. Find the measure of the small angle of the parallelogram.

A.30
B.45
C.60

User Nefarion
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The correct answer is B.
User Pedro Madrid
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You can solve this problem by using trigonometry. There are two scenarios with a parallelogram with sides 6 and 10. Either the base is 6 or the base is 10. I did both cases and they gave the same results. The answer is B, 45 degrees. My work is shown below:



HELP PLEASE! A parallelogram with sides of 6 and 10 has an area of 30 sqrt of 2. Find-example-1
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