Question

A kitchen wall tile is shaped like a parallelogram. The base of the tile is two times the height of the tile . The height of the tile is 2.5 in . The length the other side of the tile is 3 in . What is the area of the tile?

Answer 1

12.5 in²

Explanation:

Given:

Height of tile = 2.5 in

Base of tile = 2*height of tile = 2*2.5 = 5 in

Length of other side of tile = 2.5 in

Required:

Area of the tile

SOLUTION:

Area of the tile = area of parallelogram

All we need to calculate the area of the tile, is the base and the height.

Area of parallelogram = base × height

Area of tile = 5 × 2.5 = 12.5 in²