Area and Volume Unit Test
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Question
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A pool company is installing a parallelogram-shaped swimming pool in a family’s back yard. Compose a rectangle to find the amount of area that the pool will take up in the yard. What is the area of the pool?
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square feet
To find the area of the pool, we need to find the area of the parallelogram-shaped swimming pool. Since the pool can be composed of a rectangle, we can use the formula for finding the area of a rectangle: Area = length x width.
In this case, the length of the pool is 12 feet and the width is 6 feet (since the width of the parallelogram is the same as the longer side of the rectangle). Therefore, the area of the pool is:
Area = 12 feet x 6 feet = 72 square feet
So, the area of the pool is 72 square feet.