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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 is 12 meters.
Since the parallelogram's base length is 12 meters, and a rectangle can be composed by extending the right side of the parallelogram to create a right angle with the original base, the base of the rectangle would be the same as the base of the original parallelogram.