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Explain how the area of a parallelogram, a triangle and a trapezoid are related.​

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Explanation:

Each triangle takes up half of a parallelogram, so the area of a parallelogram is twice the area of a triangle with the same base and height. Same goes with a trapezoid. So the parallelogram's area could be 2(1/2bh) or height x (base 1 +base 2)

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