{"id":21123,"date":"2026-05-25T16:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/parallelogram-area-calculation-17\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:06","slug":"parallelogram-area-calculation-17","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/parallelogram-area-calculation-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallelogram Area Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parallelogram has base 71 m and perpendicular height 9 m. Find its area.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>160 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>319.5 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>639 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>80 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-21123","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, 71 \u00d7 9 = 639, so the area is 639 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 639 m\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"160 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"319.5 m\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"639 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"80 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\/21123","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=21123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21123"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21123"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}