FLUENCY AND SKILLS PRACTICE Name: George Ledezma

LESSON 1

Finding the Area of a Parallelogram

Find the area of each parallelogram.

1 2

25 square units  square units

10

3 4

8 ft 9 ft

6 ft

18 square units 48 square feet



5 6
5 in. 4 in.
7 cm 8 cm
12 in.

4 cm

48 square inches  square centimeters

28

Find the missing measurement.

7 base 5 6 cm 8 base 5 3.5 in. 9 area 5 156 ft2

area 5 42 cm2 area 5 14 in.2 height 5 13 ft

height 5 7      
cm height 5 4      
in base 5 12
      
ft

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 FLUENCY AND SKILLS PRACTICE Name: George Ledezma
LESSON 1

Finding the Area of a Parallelogram continued

10 Pamela says the area of the parallelogram is 63 square inches. What 7 in.
error did she make? What is the correct area?

9 in.

6.4 in.

The error Pamela makes is she multiplies 7 times 9 which is 63 but what she should have

done is 9 times 6.4.

 correct area is 57.6.

The

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