SOLUTION: How do you find the area of a parallelogram with sides 10 feet and 40 feet and an included angle of 30 degrees? Do you just do b*h ( 10*40)?

SOLUTION: How do you find the area of a parallelogram with sides 10 feet and 40 feet and an included angle of 30 degrees? Do you just do bh ( 1040)?

Question 252568: How do you find the area of a parallelogram with sides 10 feet and 40 feet and an included angle of 30 degrees? Do you just do b*h ( 10*40)?
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The easy way here is with this formula:

we use 1/2 because the perpendicualr height is side opposite the 30 degree angle, or 1/2 the hypotenuse of 10.

A = 200 square feet
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