Tara and veronica are in charge of making a banner for the volleyball game this saturday. how much poster paper will they need for a parallelogram-shaped banner with a height 3 1/2 and base 6 1/4?

The answer is 21 7/8.

The quantity of the paper needed is the area of parallelogram with a height 3 1/2 and base 6 1/4. The area of a parallelogram (A) is the product of its height (h) and base (b):
A = h * b

We have:


Thus, the area of paralleogram is: