{"id":20120,"date":"2026-05-21T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-parallelogram-has-base-23-cm-and-height-7-cm-what-is-its-area\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:40:09","slug":"a-parallelogram-has-base-23-cm-and-height-7-cm-what-is-its-area","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-parallelogram-has-base-23-cm-and-height-7-cm-what-is-its-area\/","title":{"rendered":"A parallelogram has base 23 cm and height 7 cm. What is its area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parallelogram has base 23 cm and height 7 cm. What is its area?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>161 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>30 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>80 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>60 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2845],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[2494],"class_list":["post-20120","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area-of-parallelogram","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-6"],"mcq_note":"Area of a parallelogram = base \u00d7 height = 23 \u00d7 7 = 161 cm\u00b2. Use the vertical height, not the slanted side, because area depends on base and perpendicular height. A parallelogram can be rearranged into a rectangle with the same base and vertical height. That is why multiplying base by perpendicular height gives its area, and the answer uses square units.","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"161 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"30 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"80 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"60 cm\u00b2"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2845,"title":"Area of Parallelogram","slug":"area-of-parallelogram"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20120"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20120"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}