I know how to find area of parallelogram and height if the vectors are adjacent to each other but not sure what to do with diagonal vectors.
Here is my attempt so far.
Given diagonal vector is $\vec a=(1,3,-7)$ and diagonal vector $\vec b=(-3,5,-11)$, cross product of two diagonal is $(2, -32, 14)$ and the magnitude of cross product is $6\sqrt{34}$.
I know the area of parallelogram with two diagonal is $\frac 12|\vec a\times \vec b|$.
I can find height of parallelogram by dividing area of parallelogram ÷ magnitude of base.
How do I find base?
Am I in right track?
HINT: If the edges of the parallelogram are given by vectors $\vec v$ and $\vec w$, then you have $\vec a = \vec v + \vec w$ and $\vec b = \vec v - \vec w$. What is $\vec a\times\vec b$ in terms of $\vec v\times\vec w$?
Then you need to recover $\vec v$ (or $\vec w$) from $\vec a$ and $\vec b$. How can you do that algebraically?
By the way, I don't know how you know which vector should be the base, hence which amount should be the height.