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Area and Volume Unit Test
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An illustration of a parallelogram shows the following dimensions: The base is 12 feet. The perpendicular height from the top left vertex to the base is 7 inches. The height is drawn as a dashed line.

A pool company is installing a parallelogram-shaped swimming pool in a family’s back yard. Compose a rectangle to find the amount of area that the pool will take up in the yard. What is the area of the pool?

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square feet

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GPT 3.5
The area of a parallelogram can be found using the formula: base x height. In this case, the base is 12 feet and the height is 7 inches, or 0.583 feet.

So, the area of the pool is 12 feet x 0.583 feet = 6.996 square feet.

Therefore, the area of the pool is approximately 7 square feet.