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Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 17 cm and height is 8 cm.

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Answer:

the area of the rhombus is
136 cm^2

Explanation:

a rhombus is considered a parallelogram and to find the area of any type of parallelogram is the base * height... in this situation the side would be the base inputted into the equation (A=bh).

A = 17*8
A =
136 cm^2

[for reference with rhombus "is a quadrilateral with 4 equal sides. A shape with four sides of equal length."]

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