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How are the area formulas for triangles, parallelograms, and trapizoids related to the area of a rectangle?

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I am not sure about parallelograms and trapezoids, but I do know for a triangle...

triangle: b x h x 1/2
rectangle: b x h

How these two are related is that two triangles make up one rectangle, so to find the area of a rectangle you divide by two after multiplying the base and height.
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