Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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7. Writing and Graphing Inequalities
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Exercise 9 Page 388

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

12 square inches

Practice makes perfect

The area of a parallelogram is the product of its base and its height. In the given parallelogram, the length of the base is 4 inches and the height is 3 inches.

Let's substitute these two values into the formula for the area of a parallelogram and simplify.

A=bh
A=4( 3)
A=12

The area of the parallelogram is 12 square inches.