Question

If the area of a parallelogram is 36 cm^2 and has a height of 4 cm, what is the basea cm

Answer 1

Given, the area of the parallelogram, A=36 cm^2.

The height of the parallelogram, h=4 cm.

The area of a parallelogram is,

`A=bh`

Here, b is the base length and h is the height of the parallelogram.

Put values of A and h in the above equation to find base b.

`\begin{gathered} 36=b*4 \\ (36)/(4)=b \\ 9cm=b \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the base of the parallelogram is 9 cm.