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Course: 6th grade > Unit 8
Lesson 1: Areas of parallelogramsArea of parallelograms
Understand how to find the area of a parallelogram and why it works.
Intuition for why the area of a parallelogram is
The formula for the area of a parallelogram is base times height, just like the formula for the area of a rectangle.
But wait! Why are the formulas the same? Look what happens when we slide part of the parallelogram to the right.
Genius! We made the parallelogram into a rectangle.
Key intuition: We can make every parallelogram into a rectangle, which is why we use the same formula to find the area of a parallelogram and a rectangle.
Practice problem 1
Practice problem 2
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- why does it not count when the number is curve(142 votes)
- If it was carved it can’t have a number(21 votes)
- Would it still work if it wasn't drawn to scale? Also, are you not just multiplying the numbers, or is there more to it?
Please explain in full terms.(43 votes)- Another way of thinking why it will work is that a Parallelogram has 2 pairs of sides that are of equal length (Opposite sides have equal length).
Therefore, the parallelogram will always be able to fit into a rectangle when rearranged properly => Formula of finding the area of a rectangle will work as long as we are sure that the figure that we are handling is truly a parallelogram irregardless of whether it is drawn to scale or not.(12 votes)
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- How come they did not put a multiplication sign, they just put bh? shouldn't there be multiplication sign?(6 votes)
- putting bh is the same as b • h or b x h(55 votes)
- what is with the extra third number when practicing? like for example we are timesing the base and height (10 x 14 = 140) but there is a third number outside the parallelogram? we just basically ignore it?(11 votes)
- A third number will usually be measuring the length of one of the diagonal sides. I would have to see the specific example to be sure though.(12 votes)
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- if there will be only two numbers multiply those or act like the shape provided can be turned into a square then do it like it is a square.(11 votes)
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