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[ADVANCE]

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The area of the shaded region BEDC in parallelogram ABCD is to be found, where BC = 15, ED = 9, and the total area of ABCD is 150. If BE is the height of parallelogram ABCD from base BC and is shared with ABE, both of which overlap over BE, calculate the area of the shaded region BEDC.

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