Area of Parallelogram Progress Check

1. Find the area of the parallelogram and type it in the space provided.

2. The area of the parallelogram is 288 in.². The base of the parallelogram is 24 in. What is the height of the parallelogram?

3. What is the area of the figure? Hint: The total area of both parallelograms.

5. A small window in a barn is shaped like a parallelogram. The height of the window is half the length of the base of the window. The base of the window is 12 in. The length of the other side of the window is 10 in. What is the area of the window?

• 22 in. ²

• 60 in. ²

• 72 in. ²

• 120 in. ²

6. Kimani plans to paint the background of a mural on a wall in her school’s cafeteria. The mural will be in the shape of a parallelogram. One quart of paint covers 100 square feet. How many quarts of paint does Kimani need?

7. The area of a parallelogram is 18 square units. One side of the parallelogram is 24 units long. The other side is 6 units long. Which could be the parallelogram’s height? Select all that apply.

8. A road sign is a rectangle with the dimensions shown. The sign has two identical black parallelograms joined together. 

Each parallelogram has a base of 14 in. and a height of 17 in. Find the area of the sign that is not black.

9. What is the area of the parallelogram in square centimeters?

10. Two different parallelograms each have an area of 12 square centimeters. What are two different sets of dimensions that would work for these parallelograms? Hint: Separate the numbers with a multiplication sign, x.