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SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
AREA OF PARALLELOGRAM
Department of Education
Revised 2010
by the Learning Resource Management and Development System (LRMDS),
DepEd - Division of Negros Occidental
under the Strengthening the Implementation of Basic Education
in Selected Provinces in the Visayas (STRIVE).
This edition has been revised with permission for online distribution
through the Learning Resource Management Development System (LRMDS) Portal
(http://lrmds.deped.gov.ph/) under Project STRIVE for BESRA, a project supported
by AusAID.
AREA OF PARALLELOGRAM
Objective:
Review
4. CONEDAG
5. CANTOGO
B. Find the area of the figures below and write the answer on your paper.
13 cm
1.
8m
7 cm
2.
3.
5 dm
9 dm
Check your answer using the answer key. If you have a perfect
score, you may now proceed to this lesson. If not, review your past
lessons.
b. If you cut along the perpendicular segment and rearrange the two
figures as shown, what new figure is formed?
rectangle
c. How many units long are the base, length (b) and the height (h) of
the original parallelogram?
b = 12
h=6
e. How are base (b) and height (h) related to the length and width of
the rectangle that was formed?
b=l
h=w
By merely counting the square units, youll know that the area of the
rectangle is 72 square units.
We just put the right triangle taken from the parallelogram at the left
side which turned the figure into a rectangle. We did not subtract
anything from the parallelogram.
If the rectangle has an area of 72 square units, then what is the area of
the parallelogram?
The parallelogram and rectangle occupy the same amount of space.
The area is 72 square units.
f. The formula for the area of a parallelogram is the same as the
formula for the area of a rectangle.
Area of Parallelogram = b x h
12 x 6 = 72 sq. units
g. Let us find the area of the parallelogram using the formula.
A = bh
= 20 x 10
= 200
10 cm
20 cm
Try These
20 mm
a.
b.
4m
15 mm
9 dm
c.
13 dm
d. b = 16 cm
h = 5 cm
A = ______
e. b = 11 dm
h = 14 dm
A = ______
Wrap Up
On Your Own
A. Find the area of each parallelogram below. Copy and answer in your
notebook.
PARALLELOGRAM
A
B
C
D
E
BASE
9 cm
8 cm
15 m
14 dm
23 mm
HEIGHT
5 cm
13 cm
8m
12 dm
9 mm
AREA
3-2
0-1