a parallegram has a height of 4 meters and sides of 5 meters and 7 meters. What is its area in square meters?
ok so your parallegram looks like this
5
l----\
4l-----\
7
so you know that the bottom line has 2 more meters then the top so what you do is you cut that off from the shape and think of it as a 5x4 rectangle
5
______ [\
4 [ ] 4[ \
[ ] [__\
------ 2
4x5=20 4x2=8 8/2=4
find the answer to that equation then take your leftover triangle whitch is 2x4 because its the leftover 2 from the bottom line then multiply 2x4 then divide by 2 because its a tryangle then add up both equations and you have your answer
20+4=24
sorry that didint work well
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If your figure has "sides" of two different lengths (5 & 7), it is a trapezoid rather than a parallelogram.
To find the area of a parallelogram, we need to multiply the base by the height. In this case, the given height is 4 meters.
However, in order to calculate the base of the parallelogram, we need to determine which side is the base. The base of a parallelogram is typically defined as the side that is perpendicular to the given height.
Let's calculate the length of the base using the given information. We have two side lengths, 5 meters and 7 meters. Since we know that opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal, it means that the two 5-meter sides and the two 7-meter sides are parallel.
Since the height is perpendicular to the base, we know that the base will be the 7-meter side. Now we can proceed to calculate the area.
Area of a parallelogram = base × height
Area = 7 meters × 4 meters
Area = 28 square meters
Therefore, the area of the parallelogram is 28 square meters.