Parallelograms - ISEE Upper Level Mathematics Achievement

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Find the sum of the interior angles of the polygon using the following equation where n is equal to the number of sides.

The sum of the angles must equal 360.

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Give the area of the above parallelogram if .

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Multiply height by base to get the area.

By the 30-60-90 Theorem:

$BD = \frac{BC}{2} = \frac{10}{2}} = 5$

and

$CD =BD \cdot \sqrt{3} = 5\sqrt{3}$

The area is therefore

$BD \cdot CD = 5 \cdot 5\sqrt{3} = 25\sqrt{3}$

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Give the area of the above parallelogram if .

Answer

Multiply height by base to get the area.

By the 45-45-90 Theorem,

$BD = CD = \frac{BC}{\sqrt{2}} = \frac{10}{\sqrt{2}}$ .

The area is therefore

$BD \cdot CD = \frac{10}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot \frac{10}{\sqrt{2}} = \frac{100}{2} = 50$

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Three of the vertices of a parallelogram on the coordinate plane are . What is the area of the parallelogram?

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As can be seen in the diagram, there are three possible locations of the fourth point of the parallelogram:

Regardless of the location of the fourth point, however, the triangle with the given three vertices comprises exactly half the parallelogram. Therefore, the parallelogram has double that of the triangle.

The area of the triangle can be computed by noting that the triangle is actually a part of a 12-by-12 square with three additional right triangles cut out:

The area of the 12 by 12 square is $12^{2} = 144$

The area of the green triangle is $\frac{1}{2} \times 12 \times 9 = 54$ .

The area of the blue triangle is $\frac{1}{2} \times 9 \times 12 = 54$ .

The area of the pink triangle is $\frac{1}{2} \times 3 \times 3 = 4 \frac{1}{2}$ .

The area of the main triangle is therefore

$144- 54-54-4\frac{1}{2} = 31\frac{1}{2}$

The parallelogram has area twice this, or $2 \times 31\frac{1}{2} = 63$ .

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One of the sides of a square on the coordinate plane has an endpoint at the point with coordinates ; it has the origin as its other endpoint. What is the area of this square?

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The length of a segment with endpoints and can be found using the distance formula with $x_{1} = y_{1} = 0$ , $x_{2} = 4$ , $y_{2} = 5$ :

$d = \sqrt{(x_{2}- x_{1})^{2}+(y_{2}-y_{1})^{2}}$

$= \sqrt{(4-0)^{2}+(5-0 )^{2}}$

$= \sqrt{4^{2}+5^{2}}$

$= \sqrt{16+25 }$

$= \sqrt{41}$

This is the length of one side of the square, so the area is the square of this, or 41.

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The area of the Parallelogram is . Give its perimeter in terms of .

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The height of the parallelogram is , and the base is . By the 45-45-90 Theorem, . Since the product of the height and the base of a parallelogram is its area,

$BD \cdot CD = A$

$\left (BD \right )^{2} = X$

$BD = \sqrt{X}$

Also by the 45-45-90 Theorem,

$CD = AB = BD = \sqrt{X}$ , and

$AD = BC = \sqrt{X} \cdot \sqrt{2} = \sqrt{2X}$

The perimeter of the parallelogram is

$AB + CD + BC + AD = \sqrt{X} + \sqrt{X} + \sqrt{2X}+ \sqrt{2X} = 2 \sqrt{X} + 2 \sqrt{2X}$

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Calculate the perimeter of the above parallelogram if $BD = 8\sqrt{2}$ .

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By the 45-45-90 Theorem,

$AB= CD = BD = 8\sqrt{2}$

$AD= BC = BD \cdot \sqrt{2} = 8\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{2} = 8 \cdot 2 = 16$

The perimeter of the parallelogram is

$AB + CD + BC + AD = 8 \sqrt{2} + 8 \sqrt{2} + 16+16 = 32+ 16 \sqrt{2}$

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Calculate the perimeter of the above parallelogram if $BD = 30\sqrt{6}$ .

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By the 30-60-90 Theorem:

$AB = CD= \frac{BD}{\sqrt{3}} = \frac{30 \sqrt{6}}{\sqrt{3}}= 30\sqrt{2}$ , and

$BC = AD = 2\cdot AB = 2 \cdot 30\sqrt{2} =60\sqrt{2}$

The perimeter of the parallelogram is

$AB + CD + BC + AD = 30\sqrt{2}+ 30\sqrt{2}+60\sqrt{2}+60\sqrt{2}= 180\sqrt{2}$

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Find the perimeter of a parallelogram with a base of 6in and a side of length 8in.

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A parallelogram has 4 sides. A base (where the opposite side is equal) and a side (where the opposite side is equal). So, we will use the following formula:

where b is the base and s is the side of the parallelogram.

We know the base has a length of 6in. We also know the side has a length of 8in.

Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get

$P = 6\text{in} + 6\text{in} + 8\text{in} + 8\text{in}$

$P = 28\text{in}$

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