Interact with the activity below to answer the following questions. 1. Find the area of the rectangle. 2. Drag the slider through the animation to see a triangular piece of the rectangle moved to create a parallelogram. Find the area of the parallelogram. How did you come to this conclusion? 3. The formula for the area of a parallelogram is A = base * height. Why does this make better sense than trying to multiply the length by the width as you would for a rectangle? 4. Cut along the diagonal of the parallelogram (Check the box below). What is the result? The formula for the area of a triangle is A = (base * height)/2. Based on what you have discovered why does this make sense?