Ok so this might seem silly or stupid, but I just "learned" about the area of a parallelogram. I am so confused because it's basically a rectangle, tilted. Why on earth can't I just find the area by multiplying the dimensions of the sides? Why do I have to do this whole base x height thing? The dimensions stay the same, so I'm so confused. If someone could explain why just multiplying the dimensions doesn't work I would really appreciate it. :3