Question

A parallelogram has bases that are 40 feet long and a height of 20 feet. The side lengths are 25 feet.

What is its area?

Answer 1

`\text{area} = 800 \text{ ft}^2`

Explanation:

The formula for the area of the parallelogram is:

`\text{area} = \text{base} * \text{height}`

Base is 40 feet and height is 20 feet. You were also given side lengths, but you don't need that info to solve this.

Substitute formula with values:

`\text{area} = 40 \text{ ft} * 20 \text{ ft}\\\text{area} = 800 \text{ ft}^2`