A gardener wants to cover a parallelogram shaped piece land with colorful flowers. To find the area of the garden, the gardener composes a rectangle. What is the base of the rectangle in meters?

Question

The parallelogram is 10 m by 12 m.

Answer 1

To find the area of the parallelogram, we use the formula:

Area = base x height

Given that the parallelogram is 10 m by 12 m, we can see that the height of the parallelogram is 10 m.

Replacing the base of the parallelogram with the base of the rectangle, the area of the rectangle becomes:

Area = base x 10

Since the area of the parallelogram is the same as the area of the rectangle, we can set the two equations equal to each other:

base x 10 = 10 x 12

Solving for the base, we get:

base = 12

Therefore, the base of the rectangle is 12 meters.