 | Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson - Railroads - 1869 - 446 pages
...is said to be so many square inches, or square feet, or square yards, &c. A Table of Square Measure. PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboid. BULE. — Multiply the length by the breadth or perpendicular height, and the product will... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - Geometry, Plane - 1878 - 142 pages
...measure, and the area of any figure is computed by the number of those squares contained in that figure. PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboid. RULE.—Multiply the length by the perpendicular height, and the product will be the area.*... | |
 | William Miller Barr - Engineering - 1918 - 650 pages
...56 50 56 ,50 70 45 42 60 Wyo SECTION 3 MENSURATION AND MATHEMATICAL TABLES MENSURATION OF SURFACES To Find the Area of a Parallelogram ; whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboid. — Rule: Multiply the length by the height; or, multiply the product of two contiguous sides... | |
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PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram; whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides. RULE.* Multiply the length by the perpendicular height, and the product will be the area. 
