Question

A plot of land is 25 feet in length and 20 feet wide, and it is in the shape of a parallelogram. The perpendicular distance from the long side to the opposite long side is 18 feet. What is the area of the piece of land?

Answer 1

Given:

Length of the parallelogram = 25 feet

Width of the parallelogram = 20 feet

Perpendicular distance from the long side to the opposite long side = 18 feet.

To find:

The area of the piece of land which is a parallelogram.

Solution:

Area of a parallelogram:

$Area=Base\times height$

Let the longer side, 25 feet is the base, then the height of the parallelogram is 18 feet. So, the area of the parallelogram is

$Area=25\times 18$

$Area=450$

Therefore, the area of the piece of land is 450 square feet.