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Find the area of the parallelogram.
A parallelogram has a lower side measuring 24 centimeters and a right side measuring 9 centimeters. A dashed vertical segment with endpoints on the upper and lower sides is 8 centimeters and meets the lower left vertex at a right angle.
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Area = 192
It is a rectangle of height 8 and base 24 with a triangle added to one end and an equal but inverted triangle subtracted from the other end.
8 * 24 = 192 cm^2
8 * 24 = 192 cm^2