12.4: Activity 12H
- Author:
- Trevor Leach, Erika Bratcher, Erika Bratcher
Problem 1
The three parallelograms below all have two sides that are 3 units long and two sides that are 7 units long.
(a) Use the moving and additivity principles to determine the areas of the three parallelograms.
(b) Can there be a formula for areas of parallelograms that is only in terms of the lengths of the sides?
Problem 2
Find a formula for the area of a parallelogram in terms of lengths of parts of the parallelogram.