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Practical: using a pinboard to transform a parallelogram into a rectangle. Practical: drawing several different parallelograms with an area of 24 cm •
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Practical: drawing the next two parallelograms in a sequence. Area of a Multiply the base by the perpendicular height.
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shape A= 12cm •
b A=bxh
Challenge
Practical: drawing the next three shapes in the sequence. The areas are Practical: constructing different kites on RM G.
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18 cm , 15 cm , 12 cm , q cm , 6 cm , 3 cm , because the base remains at
The area of a kite can be found by multiplying the length of one diagonal
3 cm and the height reduces by 1 cm each time.
by the other.
Practical: constructing a square on a pinboard and by moving two
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vertices only, transform it into a parallelogram of the same areas. (8 cm )
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Area B = 50 cm ; area C = 18 cm ; area D = 28 cm 2