The area of a parallelogram with base b and height h is:

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The area of a parallelogram with base b and height h is:

The area of a parallelogram is found by multiplying its base by its height. The base is the length of one side, and the height is the perpendicular distance between that base and the opposite side. You can visualize this by shifting or cutting the parallelogram into a rectangle that has the same base and height, and rectangles have area base × height. So the area is b × h, written as bh (or b times h). The other options don’t fit: bh/2 is the area of a triangle with that base and height, and b^2h has the wrong units for area.

The area of a parallelogram is found by multiplying its base by its height. The base is the length of one side, and the height is the perpendicular distance between that base and the opposite side. You can visualize this by shifting or cutting the parallelogram into a rectangle that has the same base and height, and rectangles have area base × height. So the area is b × h, written as bh (or b times h). The other options don’t fit: bh/2 is the area of a triangle with that base and height, and b^2h has the wrong units for area.

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