document.write( "Question 639506: Can you please draw and label a parallelogram that has an area of 24 square inches? thank you. \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Since a rectangle is a parallelogram, and 8×3 = 24, you can get away with \r\n" );
document.write( "simply drawing a 8in. by 3in. rectangle, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Each of those little squares is 1 square inch on my computer screen. \r\n" );
document.write( "You may have your screen set different.  If your teacher wants the\r\n" );
document.write( "parallelogram to be slanted, rather than just being a rectangle,\r\n" );
document.write( "which IS a parallelogram, then you can draw two slanted lines like these:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then you can chop off the right triangle on the left, and paste it over\r\n" );
document.write( "on the right side, and it will still have an area of 24 square \r\n" );
document.write( "inches. It will look like this: \r\n" );
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document.write( "I'm not sure how you're supposed to label it.  Perhaps you are supposed\r\n" );
document.write( "to put letters A, B, C, and D at the corners so it will then be labeled\r\n" );
document.write( "parallelogram ABCD.  [If you would rather, you can start with a 6 in by\r\n" );
document.write( "4 in. rectangle instead, since 6×4 = 24, or even a 12 in. by 2 in., since \r\n" );
document.write( "12×2 = 24.]  \r\n" );
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