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Please help! A parallelogram has an area of 396 square centimeters and a height of 18 centimeters. What is the length of the base of the parallelogram?
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Please help! A parallelogram has an area of 396 square centimeters and a height of 18 centimeters.

What is the length of the base of the parallelogram?

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The area formula for a parallelogram is base*height=area. Make an equation. You know the area and the height, so plug that into the equation, and you get x*18=396. Solve for x by dividing 396 by 18 and you get 22. So, the base is 22cm.
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