How Do You Find the Area of a Parallelogram?

How Do You Find the Area of a Parallelogram?

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Looking for the area of a parallelogram? Got the length of the base and the height? Then plug those values into the formula for the area of a parallelogram and solve. This tutorial takes you through the process!

Keywords:

  • area
  • parallelogram
  • base
  • height
  • solve for area
  • formula
  • plug in
  • parallelogram area

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Further Exploration

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