Calculate Parallelogram Area: 32cm Width and 15cm Height Problem

Question

AB = 32 cm

The height of the rectangle is 15 cm.

Calculate the area of the parallelogram.

00:00 Calculate the area of parallelogram ABCD

00:03 Opposite sides are equal in a parallelogram

00:15 Let's use the formula for calculating the area of a parallelogram

00:19 Side(CD) multiplied by height (H)

00:24 Let's substitute the appropriate values and solve for the area

00:37 And this is the solution to the problem

To calculate the area of the parallelogram, we'll use the standard area formula for a parallelogram:

$\text{Area} = \text{base} \times \text{height}$

From the problem, the base $AB = 32 \, \text{cm}$ and the height is $15 \, \text{cm}$ .

Substituting these values into the formula gives:

$\text{Area} = 32 \times 15$

Perform the multiplication:

$32 \times 15 = 480$

Thus, the area of the parallelogram is $\text{480 cm}^2$ .

The correct answer is choice 4: 480.

480