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Question
The following figure RUNS is parallelogram. Find x and y. (Lengths are in cm)

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Solution
We know that the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other.
y + 7 = 20
y = 13
x + y = 16
x + 13 = 16
x = 3
Hence, the measures of x and y are 3 cm and 13 cm respectively.
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