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Start with a rectangle, which is a special type of a parallelogram. Suppose its height is A units and length is B units. Then its area is A*B sq units and its perimeter is 2*(A+B) units.

Now slide the top side horizontally, keeping the vertical height between the top and the bottom the same. The area will not change but the perimeter will increase because the sides have now become slanted and longer.

The rather griim figures below may help illustrate (the . are for spacing):

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Q: How can two parallelograms have the same areas but different perimeters?
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