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What is the area of the parallelogram?
(-6.6)
(-9,-3)*
(-5-3)
(-2,6)

What is the area of the parallelogram? (-6.6) (-9,-3)* (-5-3) (-2,6)-example-1

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Answer:

36 square units

Explanation:

You want the area of the parallelogram with vertex coordinates (-6, 6), (-9, -3), (-5, -3), (-2, 6).

Area

The area of a parallelogram is the product of the base length and the height perpendicular to that base.

Here, the base is a horizontal line, so its length is the difference of the x-coordinates of the end points:

-5 -(-9) = 4 . . . . base

The height is the difference of y-coordinates between the top edge and the bottom edge:

6 -(-3) = 9 . . . . height

Then the area is ...

A = bh = 4·9 = 36 . . . . square units

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