{"id":20825,"date":"2026-05-25T05:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/parallelogram-area-calculation-3\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:29","slug":"parallelogram-area-calculation-3","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/parallelogram-area-calculation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallelogram Area Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parallelogram has base 53 m and perpendicular height 13 m. Find its area.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>344.5 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>689 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>66 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>132 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2845,2874],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-20825","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area-of-parallelogram","topic-plane-figures","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Area of a parallelogram = base \u00d7 perpendicular height. Here, 53 \u00d7 13 = 689, so the area is 689 square m. A parallelogram can be rearranged into a rectangle without changing its area, so base \u00d7 perpendicular height works. The slanted side is not used unless it is the given base or part of a perimeter question. So the correct choice is 689 m\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"344.5 m\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"689 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"66 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"132 m\u00b2"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2845,"title":"Area of Parallelogram","slug":"area-of-parallelogram"},{"id":2874,"title":"Plane Figures","slug":"plane-figures"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20825","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=20825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}