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?
To find the base of the rectangle, the gardener needs to find the base of the parallelogram-shaped piece of land. The base of a parallelogram is one of its sides.
Without more specific information about the dimensions of the parallelogram, it is impossible to determine the base of the rectangle that the gardener composes to find the area of the garden.