Question

Simone cut out a 72 cm parallelogram. The height is 12 cm. Find the length of the base

Answer 1

The base is 24 cm

Explanation:

There are three ways to look at this problem:

12 + 12 + 24 + 24 = 72

or

2(12+b) = 72

b = 24

or

24 · 12 = 72

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