It is the perpendicular distance from the top or bottom of the parallelogram to the opposite side.
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The area of a parallelogram is the base times the height; the height must be measured perpendicular to the base. If you correctly measure the height perpendicular to the base and you get different measurements, then you are NOT dealing with a parallelogram.
The height is the length of its altitude.
To find the height of a parallelogram, you divide the area by the base length. So in this case, the height of the parallelogram would be 115/12 = 9.58 to the nearest hundredth.
For a parallelogram, take the base times the height. For a trapezoid, take the smaller base and times it by the height.
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