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Not necessarily. Consider this diagram I drew up: http://myurl.me/h375k6 Since when calculating the area of an object, the formula is simple multiplication (a=b•h), the communicative property of multiplication states that whether you have b•h or a•h, the end value will be the same, so it does not matter which side is considered the width.

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