Solution

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The proposed linear change of variables makes the two pairs of boundary lines constant-coordinate lines: and . Thus the image of the parallelogram is the rectangle , .
The forward Jacobian matrix and its determinant are
Inverting gives , , so the area element is . The absolute inverse Jacobian determinant, rather than the forward determinant, belongs in the transformed area integral. Consequently
which yields . The transformed denominator is bounded below by one throughout the region, so no singular or improper integral is involved.

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