Given, ABCD and AEFD are two parallelograms. To prove ar (APEA) = ar (AQFD) Proof In quadrilateral PQDA, AP || DQ [since, in parallelogram ABCD, AB || CD ] and PQ || AD [since, in parallelogram AEFD, FE || AD] Then, quadrilateral PQDA is a parallelogram. Also, parallelogram PQDA and AEFD are on the same base AD and between the same parallels AD and EQ. ar (parallelogram PQDA) = ar (parallelogram AEFD) On subtracting ar (quadrilateral APFD) from both sides, we get ar (parallelogram PQDA)- ar (quadrilateral APFD) = ar (parallelogram AEFD) – ar (quadrilateral APFD) ⇒ ar (AQFD) = ar (APEA) Hence proved.