Question

in two to three sentences explain why this is the correct answer like a twelve-year-old

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An illustration of a parallelogram shows the following dimensions: The base is 12 feet. The perpendicular height from the top left vertex to the base is 7 inches. The height is drawn as a dashed line.

A pool company is installing a parallelogram-shaped swimming pool in a family’s backyard. 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?

84

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

The correct answer is 84 because you need to multiply the base of 12 feet by the height of 7 feet to find the area of the parallelogram pool. When you multiply 12 by 7, you get 84, which is the total area that the pool will take up in the yard.