Question

Jasmine correctly determined the area of this parallelogram by adding the areas of the triangles and rectangle.

How did jasmine determine the area?
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Jasmine determined that the area of each triangle is _m2 and that the area of the rectangle is _m2. She added the areas of the two triangles and the rectangle for a total area of _

Answer 1

We see that each triangle takes up precisely one half of the parallelogram. From this, we see that the area of a triangle is one half the area of a parallelogram, or the area of a parallelogram is two times the area of a triangle

Answer 2

Answer: 20
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112

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