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? ( 7ft, 12ft ).
To find the area of the parallelogram-shaped pool, we need to find the area of the rectangle that would enclose the pool.
Given that the dimensions of the pool are 7ft and 12ft, we can use those dimensions to create a rectangle. The length of the rectangle will be equal to the length of the pool (12ft) and the width of the rectangle will be equal to the width of the pool (7ft).
Therefore, the area of the rectangle would be:
Area = Length x Width
Area = 12ft x 7ft
Area = 84 square feet
So, the area that the parallelogram-shaped pool will take up in the yard is 84 square feet.