A flooring tile shaped like a parallelogram has base 24 cm and height 10 cm. Its area is:
A34 square cm
B120 square cm
C480 square cm
D240 square cm
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. 240 square cm
1. Area of a parallelogram is base times height.
2. 24 times 10 is 240.
3. So each tile covers 240 square cm.
_Source: syllabus Mathematics, Chapter 11, Mensuration._
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