Expressing Relationships between Two Quantities

1.8.1 Expressing Relationships between Two Quantities

1.8.1 • Expressing Relationships between Two Quantities

Warm Up

In the image below, all the parallelograms have the same height. Base length is measured in inches, and area is measured in square inches.

A table can be used to show the relationship between the base length, bb, and the area, AA, of the parallelograms.

The image shows three parallelograms with dimensions as shown in the table.
bb (inches) AA (square inches)
1 3
2 6
3 9
4.5 a. ____
112112 b. ____
c. ____ 36
d. ____ 46.5

In the following activity, you will complete the table by entering the missing information.

What is your answer for aa?

a=13.5a=13.5

What is your answer for bb?

b=332b=332

What is your answer for cc?

c=12c=12

What is your answer for dd?

d=15.5d=15.5