SOLUTION: A parallelogram has an 8 inch base. if the parallelogram has an area of 64 square inches, what is the height of the parallelogram

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Question 700894: A parallelogram has an 8 inch base. if the parallelogram has an area of 64 square inches, what is the height of the parallelogram
Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source):
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The formula for the area of a parallelogram is simply:

where b is the base and h is the actual height (not slant height).

This is the exact same formula used for the area of a rectangle.

Knowing this, let's use the information we are given:

So the height of our parallelogram MUST be 8 inches.

This also means that our parallelogram is also classified as a rhombus,

since all 4 sides must be congruent.

I hope this helps! Keep practicing! :)

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