the base and the height of a parallelogram are 18cm and 8cm.If both the base and height of the parallelogram are decreased by 50%, what is the area of the parallelogram?

Verified Answer :

If the base is decreased by 50%, it becomes 9. We get this by simply multiply 18 0.5
If the height is decreased by 50%, it becomes 4. Again, we just do 8
0.5
The area of a parallelogram is base height.
9
4 = 36