Question

2. Maya has a piece of fabric in the shape of a parallelogram. Its height is 12 feet and its base is 18 feet. She cuts the fabric into four equal parallelograms by cutting the base and the height in half. What is the area of each new parallelogram?​

Answer 1

54 square feet each

Explanation:

So she has a parallelogram, 12 feet high and 18 feet long. She cuts them into fours, which is basically just cutting each number in half. 12÷2 is 6. 18÷2 is 9. Now each four parallelograms all have the measurements of 6 feet high and 9 feet wide. To find area, you would multiply and the base times height. 6 x 9 gives you 54 square feet.