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An illustration shows a parallelogram with a base length of 12 meters and right side of 10 meters.
A gardener wants to cover a parallelogram-shaped piece of land with colorful flowers. To find the area of the garden, the gardener composes a rectangle. What is the base of the rectangle in meters?
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The base of the rectangle can be determined by creating a perpendicular line from the top left corner of the parallelogram down to the bottom base. This creates a right triangle with a base of 10 meters and a hypotenuse of 12 meters.
Using the Pythagorean theorem (a^2 + b^2 = c^2), we can find the height of the right triangle:
10^2 + b^2 = 12^2
100 + b^2 = 144
b^2 = 44
b ≈ 6.63 meters
Therefore, the base of the rectangle is approximately 6.63 meters.
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To find the base of the rectangle in meters, we can use the fact that the opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal in length. The base of the rectangle will be the same length as the base of the parallelogram, which is 12 meters.
Therefore, the base of the rectangle in meters is 12 meters.