Grade 6 | Unit 1 | Lesson 4: Parallelograms | Practice Problems

Select all of the parallelograms. For each figure that is not selected, explain how you know it is not a parallelogram.

• Figure A

• Figure B

• Figure C

• Figure D

• Figure E

Decompose and rearrange this parallelogram to make a rectangle. What is the area of the parallelogram? Explain your reasoning.

Find the area of the parallelogram.

Explain why this quadrilateral is not a parallelogram.

Find the area of each shape. Show your reasoning.

Find the area of the rectangle with each set of side lengths.