The area of a shape is a measure of the two dimensional space that it covers. A shape's area is measured in squares, eg square centimetres, square metres and square kilometres.
The area of a parallelogram is the .
You can see that this is true by rearranging the parallelogram to make a rectangle.
Find the area of this parallelogram:
The area is .
Remember to use the perpendicular height of the parallelogram.