A Gardener wants to cover a parallelogram-shaped piece of land with colorful flowers. To find the area of the garden, the gardener composes a rectangle

Answer 1

around the parallelogram, as shown in the image below:

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| Garden |
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To find the area of the garden, the gardener measures the length of the rectangle as 10 meters and the width as 6 meters. Since the parallelogram fits perfectly within the rectangle, the area of the parallelogram-shaped garden can be found by calculating the area of the surrounding rectangle.

Area of a rectangle = length * width
Area of the garden = 10 meters * 6 meters
Area of the garden = 60 square meters

Therefore, the gardener would need 60 square meters of colorful flowers to cover the parallelogram-shaped piece of land.