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Describe the relationship between the area of a parallelogram and the area of a triangle that have the same base and height.

Describe the relationship between the area of a parallelogram and the area of a triangle-example-1

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The area of a triangle is one half the area of the parallelogram with the same base and height.

For a triangle, we have the formula

A= (1)/(2)Bh.

For a parallelogram, we have

A=Bh.
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