{"id":20133,"date":"2026-05-21T23:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/the-area-of-a-parallelogram-is-140-m2-and-its-base-is-20-m-what-is-its-height\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:42:33","slug":"the-area-of-a-parallelogram-is-140-m2-and-its-base-is-20-m-what-is-its-height","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/the-area-of-a-parallelogram-is-140-m2-and-its-base-is-20-m-what-is-its-height\/","title":{"rendered":"The area of a parallelogram is 140 m\u00b2 and its base is 20 m. What is its height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The area of a parallelogram is 140 m\u00b2 and its base is 20 m. What is its height?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>160 m<\/li>\n<li>10 m<\/li>\n<li>7 m<\/li>\n<li>70 m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2845,2839],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[2495],"class_list":["post-20133","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area-of-parallelogram","topic-missing-dimension","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-7"],"mcq_note":"Height = area \u00f7 base = 140 \u00f7 20 = 7 m. Use the vertical height, not the slanted side, because area depends on base and perpendicular height. Since area = base \u00d7 perpendicular height, finding a missing height or base means dividing the area by the known measurement. The height must be the straight vertical distance to the base, not the slanted side.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"160 m"},{"right":"no","answer":"10 m"},{"right":"yes","answer":"7 m"},{"right":"no","answer":"70 m"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2845,"title":"Area of Parallelogram","slug":"area-of-parallelogram"},{"id":2839,"title":"Missing Dimension","slug":"missing-dimension"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20133","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=20133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20133"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20133"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}