Question

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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Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

To find the area of the parallelogram-shaped swimming pool, we need to first find the area of a rectangle that contains the pool.

Let's say the base of the parallelogram is 10 feet and the height is 5 feet. The area of the parallelogram can be found by multiplying the base by the height. So, the area of the parallelogram-shaped swimming pool is 10 feet x 5 feet = 50 square feet.

This is the correct answer because the area of a parallelogram is always found by multiplying the base by the height, regardless of the shape or orientation of the parallelogram. Since the parallegram-shaped swimming pool is contained within a rectangular area that we calculated, the area of the pool is the same as the area of the rectangle.