Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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7. Writing and Graphing Inequalities
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Exercise 11 Page 388

To find the area of a parallelogram, calculate the product of the base and the height.

127.5 square miles

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The area of a parallelogram is the product of its base and its height.

Let's rotate the figure to make it easier to identify the base and the height!

After rotating the parallelogram, we can see that the length of the base is 8.5 miles and the corresponding height is 15 miles. We can substitute these two values into the formula for the area of a parallelogram and simplify.
A=bh
A= 8.5 ( 15)
A=127.5
The area of the parallelogram is 127.5 square miles.