Question 1

What is the formula for finding the area of a parallelogram?

Accepted Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Question 2

If a parallelogram has a base of 10 cm and a height of 5 cm, what is its area?

Accepted Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Question 3

Which of the following describes the height in a parallelogram?

Accepted Answer

The perpendicular distance from the base to the opposite side

Answer

The average of the base and one side

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The diagonal running across the parallelogram

Answer

The length of the base itself

Question 4

A parallelogram has an area of

72 	ext{ cm}^2

and a height of

8 	ext{ cm}

. What is the length of its base?

Accepted Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Question 5

If the base of a parallelogram is doubled and the height remains the same, what happens to the area of the parallelogram?

Accepted Answer

The area is doubled.

Answer

The area is halved.

Answer

The area is tripled.

Answer

The area remains the same.

Question 6

A parallelogram and a triangle share the same base and height. If the area of the parallelogram is

72 	ext{ cm}^2

, what is the area of the triangle?

Accepted Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Answer

A = b 	imes h

Question 7

What happens to the area of a parallelogram if both its base and height are tripled?

Accepted Answer

The area becomes nine times larger.

Answer

The area becomes ten times larger.

Answer

The area becomes six times larger.

Answer

The area remains the same.

Question 8

Given a parallelogram with vertices at coordinates (0, 0), (4, 0), (5, 3), and (1, 3), what is the area?

Accepted Answer

12 square units

Answer

8 square units

Answer

15 square units

Answer

10 square units

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