Question

Please help

A parallelogram is shown below:


Part A: What is the area of the parallelogram? Show your work. (5 points)

Part B: How can you decompose this parallelogram into two triangles? If this parallelogram was decomposed into two triangles, what would be the area of each triangle?

Answer 1

Explanation:

part A. area = L X H

9 x 8/9 = 72/9 = 8 square feet

Part B. Draw a line diagonally either between Point A & C or B & D, this would make 2 triangles.

the area of the triangle would be half of the full area so 8 / 2 = 4 feet square