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Amanda is a sunflower farmer. Her farm is in the shape of a parallelogram with a height measuring 13 kilometers and a base measuring 12 kilometers. What is the total land area Amanda uses?

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Answer:

156

Explanation:

To find the area of a rectangle you have to to base x height. Its the same with parrallograms becase most of them look like the attached image. If you simply take one of the triangles off one side and put it on the other it becomes a rectangle. This was the formula A= bh still works.

Amanda is a sunflower farmer. Her farm is in the shape of a parallelogram with a height-example-1
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