Question

in the parking lot at Super Grocers the parking spaces are shaped like parallelograms each parking space has a base of 16 ft and a height of 8 feet what is the area of each parking space

Answer 1

`A_p=128ft^2\rightarrow\text{ Option (1)}`

Step-by-step explanation: The area of a parallelogram, in general, is found by the following formula:

`A_p=b* h`

Therefore the area of each parking spot is:

`\begin{gathered} A_p=b* h=16ft*8ft=128ft^2 \\ A_p=128ft^2 \end{gathered}`

This is Option (1) out of the given options: