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An illustration shows a parallelogram. The top side, slanting downward, is 5 centimeters, and the right side is 25 centimeters. A dotted perpendicular line is drawn from top right vertex to the left side and is labeled as 4 centimeters. It is denoted by two right angle symbols formed with the two sides.
What is the area of the quadrilateral?
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Responses
80 cm2
80 cm squared
125 cm2
125 cm squared
100 cm2
100 cm squared
75 cm2
75 cm squared
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To find the area of the quadrilateral, we can split it into two triangles and then add their areas together.
The area of the first triangle = (base * height) / 2 = (25 * 4) / 2 = 50 cm^2
The area of the second triangle = (base * height) / 2 = (5 * 4) / 2 = 10 cm^2
Therefore, the total area of the quadrilateral = 50 cm^2 + 10 cm^2 = 60 cm^2
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100 cm2
100 cm squared