The base and perpendicular height are at right angles. Showing that a parallelogram has the same area as a rectangle: Split the parallelogram into a right-angled triangle and a trapezium. Move the ...
WHAT YOU NEED: ruler, scissors, pencil, piece of card. Image caption, STEP 1: Use the ruler and pencil to draw a diagonal line from the bottom left corner of the card to any point on the top edge of ...
Quite so. The problem with parallelograms is that they’re a con. They tell you that finding the area is simple: it’s base · height. Easy peasy! But what’s the height? Crap. The length of the sides isn ...