SOLUTION: hi can you help me find the area of a parallelogram with sides 6 and 10 that form a 30 degrees angle?

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Question 429503: hi can you help me find the area
of a parallelogram with sides 6 and 10 that form a 30 degrees angle?
Answer by poliphob3.14(115) About Me  (Show Source):
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Solution:Draw the height on the base b=10 cm. Since the height is opposite to the angle 30 degree of right triangle, its length is half of the hypotenuse length or
h=6:2=3 cm. We know that the area of parallelogram is A=bXh=10X3=30 cm^2.