Area Of A Parallelogram

Introduction

• Parallelograms are 4 sided shapes in which each pair of opposite sides are parallel:
• Parallelograms are just slanted rectangles:
• We can convert a paralellogram back into a rectangle without affecting it's area.
• This means that the area of a paralellogram is simply it's base multiplied by it's height:

Code (Python)

base = 4
height = 3

area = base * height
print(area) # prints 12