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Explain how to use the area of a parallelogram to find the area of a triangle

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If you draw a diagonal across the parallelogram from one vertex to the opposite vertex, you divide the parallelogram into two congruent triangles. Each triangle thus has 1/2 of the area of the parallelogram.

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