SOLUTION: What is the area of parallelogram with edges A and B given by |A x B|?

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Question 1172390: What is the area of parallelogram with edges A and B given by |A x B|?
Answer by ikleyn(52926)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The symbol [A x B] in this context means the vector product of vectors A and B.



Quantitatively, it is the same as the product of the ADGACENT side lengths |A| and |B| by the sine of the angle between the sides.


    area of a parallelogram = .


By the way,  parallelogram has  SIDES.   Parallelogram has no edges.



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