Area of Parallelogram
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Area of Parallelogram
Area of Parallelogram
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Class 8 (Ganita Prakash - 1, 2 & Old NCERT)
Chapter 7 Class 8 - Area (Ganita Prakash II)
- Area of Rectangle and Square
- Perimeter vs Area
- Figure it out - Page 150-152
- Area of Triangle
- Applications of Area of Triangle Formula
- Triangles between Parallel Lines with a Common Base
- Figure it out - Page 157-159
- Area of any Polygon
- Figure it out - Page 160
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Area of Parallelogram
- Area of Rhombus
- Area of Trapezium
- Figure it out - Page 169-170
- Areas in Real Life
Transcript
Area of ParallelogramLet’s Consider a Parallelogram ABCD, with height AX To find Area of Parallelogram, we use two methods Converting it into Two Triangles and finding Area Transforming it into a Rectangle Let’s Transfrorm it into a Rectangle We converted Parallelogram ABCD into Rectangle AXBY The process of cutting a figure into pieces and rearranging them to get a different figure of equal area is called dissection Since Area of Paralleogram ABCD = Area of Rectangle ABXY And, Rectangle ABXY has sides Base and Height We can write Area of the parallelogram ABCD = Area of the rectangle ABYX. = AX × XY Since DX = CY, We can write DX + XC = CY + XC CD = YX Thus, our formula for Parallelogram becomes Area of the parallelogram ABCD = AX × CD Generally we can write Area of Parallelogram = Base × Height Generally we can write Area of Parallelogram = Base × Height
