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Find the area of the field in the form of a rhombus, if the length of each side be 14 cm and the altitude be 16 cm.

Side of rhombus = 14 cm


Altitude of rhombus = 16 cm


Rhombus is a type of parallelogram


Area of parallelogram = base × altitude


Area of parallelogram = 14 × 16 = 224 cm2


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