GRADE 6 UNIT 1 LESSON 8 Practice Problems Problem 1 To find the area of this right triangle, Diego and Jada used different strategies. Diego drew a line through the midpoints of the two longer sides, which decomposes the triangle into a trapezoid and a smaller triangle. He then rearranged the two shapes into a parallelogram. 3 ft 3 ft 3 ft 4 ft 4 ft 8 ft the greatest 4 ft how your reasonling wabout the a of parallelograms Jada made a copy of the triangle, rotated it, and lined it up against one side of the original triangle so that the two triangles make a parallelogram. 3 ft 3 ft 8 ft 8 ft a. Explain how Diego might use his parallelogram to find the area of the triangle. b. Explain how Jada might use her parallelogram to find the area of the triangle. Grade 6 Unit 1 Lesson 8: Practice Problems 3rd Ed. CC BY-NC 4.0. Download for free at openup.org