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In the figure, the two bottom corners of a a parallelogrami are joined to a point on the top side. The area of the dark triangle in the figure Is 5 square centimetres. What is the area of the parallelogram?

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coloured triangles has the same are. So the area of the párallelogram is two xx the area of the triangle.
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