The area of the parallelogram formed by the lines $y = mx,\,y = mx + 1,\,y = nx$ and $y = nx + 1$ equals

  • [IIT 2001]
  • A

    $\frac{{|m + n|}}{{{{(m - n)}^2}}}$

  • B

    $\frac{2}{{|m + n|}}$

  • C

    $\frac{1}{{|m + n|}}$

  • D

    $\frac{1}{{|m - n|}}$

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