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the base and the height of a parallelogram are 18cm and 8cm.If both the base and height of the parallelogram are decreased by 50%, what is the area of the parallelogram?
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the base and the height of a parallelogram are 18cm and 8cm.If both the base and height of the parallelogram are decreased by 50%, what is the area of the parallelogram?

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If the base is decreased by 50%, it becomes 9. We get this by simply multiply 18 * 0.5
If the height is decreased by 50%, it becomes 4. Again, we just do 8 * 0.5
The area of a parallelogram is base * height.
9 * 4 = 36
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