Pearson Geometry Common Core, 2011
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Exercise 5 Page 642

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

204in.^2

Practice makes perfect
The area of a parallelogram is the product of its base and its height. In the given parallelogram, we are told that the base is 17 in. and its corresponding height is 12 inches.
We can substitute these two values into the formula for the area of a parallelogram and simplify.
A=bh
A=17(12)
A=204
The area of the parallelogram is 204 square inches.