Homework Help: geometry help!!

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 4:36pm.

A parallelogram ABCD has perimeter equal to 124. Let E be the foot of the perpendicular from A to BC, and let F be the foot of the perpendicular from A to CD. If AE=7 and AF=24, what is the area of the parallelogram?

geometry help!! - Steve, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 4:40pm
since area = base * height,
geometry help!! - Steve, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 4:42pm
oops. hit wrong key.

24*AB = 7*BC
but AB+BC = 124/2 = 62, so
24(62-BC) = 7BC
BC = 48
AB = 14
Area = 24*14 = 7*48 = 336
geometry help!! - rohit, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 7:48am
thank you

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