To find the area, calculate the product of the base and the height.
112cm^2
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Look closely at the given figure. Both pairs of its opposite sides are parallel. Therefore, it is a parallelogram.
The area of a parallelogram is the product of its base and its height. In the given parallelogram we will consider the side whose length is 8 cm as the base, and its corresponding height, which is 14 cm.
We can substitute these two values into the formula for the area of a parallelogram and simplify.
