~The length of Tennessee is about 440miles and the width is about 120miles. Applying the area formula for a parallelogram, Tennessee's estimated area would be 52,800miles. The actual area of Tennessee is 42,146miles. The estimated area compared to the actual area is 10,654miles off.
~The reason the area formula for a parallelogram is the same for a rectangle and/or square is, as we saw in class, a parallelogram cut at a certain angle creates a square or rectangle. Thus, we can apply A=bxh to a parallelogram's dimensions.
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