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Quadrilateral types
Learn to identify quadrilaterals such as kites, trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombuses, rectangles, and squares by side length, presence of parallel sides, and angle type. Created by Sal Khan.
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Is a square always a rombus?(13 votes)
Yes, because a rhombus is a parallelogram with equal sides, and a square is also a parallelogram with equal sides.
The difference is that the square also has four right angles.
Rhombus
- 4 equal sides
- parallelogram
Square
- 4 equal sides
- parallelogram
- 4 equal 90° angles
Notice that the square - by definition - always meets the criteria for a rhombus. So every square is also a rhombus!
However, not every rhombus is a square: if the rhombus has 2 acute angles and 2 obtuse angles, then it is just a rhombus.
Hope this helps!(15 votes)
is there any proof that if a parallelogram has one right angle, it's a rectangle?(6 votes)- Well, the definiton of parallelogram is that both pairs of sides are parallel - what I mean by pairs of sides is tricky to explain without a drawing, so I'm gong to assume you already know it. The diefinition of right angle is a measure of 90 deg, which means the two lines are perpendicular to each other. So with some logic you can see that if one line a is perpendicular to line b, and line c is parallel to line a, then line b has to be perpendicular to c as well. Right? And that means the angle between b and c has to be a right angle as well. You can keep going around the parallelogram and get four right angles, which means it's a rectangle(2 votes)
- soo, every shape with four sides is a quadriladeral?(5 votes)
please help me with this stuff(6 votes)
Im sure a kite is a quadrilateral that is shaped like a kite. You can search up different types of them.(2 votes)
What is a trapezoid and isosceles trapezoid?(3 votes)
Imagine starting with a triangle and cutting off the top parallel to the base of the triangle. That gives you a trapezoid which could be defined as a quadrilateral with exactly one set of parallel lines. Now if you start with an isosceles triangle with the base being the non-equal side, do the same thing and the two non-parallel sides are also congruent, so you have an isosceles trapezoid.
Trapezoids have different definitions and meanings depending on where you are in the world and which Math definition you choose. In Great Britain, what Americans call a trapezoid is called a trapezium (see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trapezium.html for some history), and an alternate definition of exactly one pair of parallel sides is given as AT LEAST one pair of parallel sides which would put all parallelograms under this definition. Sorry for the added confusion, but that is where Math is with the term.(6 votes)
Just a quick question that's been on my mind:
Is it possible for any trapezoid to have the pair of parallel sides having equal length? If it did, it would be considered a square, right? But is a square considered a trapezoid? :/(4 votes)
No. By definition trapezoids will always have only one pair of parallel sides. Having a trapezoid with two parallel sides of equal length would give you two pairs of parallel sides, which would be considered a rectangle instead of a trapezoid. A square will also always have two pairs of parallel sides, and thus cannot be a trapezoid.(4 votes)
- is a square always a rhombus ?(4 votes)
A square is defined as a quadrilateral with 4 equal sides and 4 equal angles.
A rhombus is defined as a quadrilateral with 4 equal sides.
Comparing these definitions, we see that, yes, every square is a rhombus. However, not every rhombus is a square (for example, think of a tall and thin diamond shape).(4 votes)
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i am still confused.for example,at1:24why did you choose like the rhombus instead of the parallelogram.(3 votes)
He picked rhombus instead of parallelogram because rhombus is the most specific item from the list. The question asks for us to "be as specific as possible" so while it is a parallelogram, that answer would be wrong.
Rhombus is more specific because rhombi are a subset of parallelograms, meaning all rhombi are parallelograms, but not all parallelograms are rhombi. Rhombus is a parallelogram with all equal sides.(5 votes)
1:24Video transcript
What is the type of
this quadrilateral? Be as specific as possible
with the given data. So it clearly is
a quadrilateral. We have four sides here. And we see that we have two
pairs of parallel sides. Or we could also say there are
two pairs of congruent sides here as well. This side is parallel and
congruent to this side. This side is parallel and
congruent to that side. So we're dealing
with a parallelogram. Let's do more of these. So here it looks like
a same type of scenario we just saw in the last one. We have two pairs of
parallel and congruent sides, but all the sides aren't
equal to each other. If they're all
equal to each other, we'd be dealing with a rhombus. But here, they're not
all equal to each other. This side is congruent
to the side opposite. This side is congruent
to the side opposite. That's another parallelogram. Now this is interesting. We have two pairs of sides that
are parallel to each other, but now all the sides
have an equal length. So this would be
a parallelogram. And it is a
parallelogram, but they're saying to be as specific as
possible with the given data. So saying it's a
rhombus would be more specific than saying
it's a parallelogram. This does satisfy
the constraints for being a parallelogram,
but saying it's a rhombus tells us even more. Not every parallelogram
is a rhombus, but every rhombus
is a parallelogram. Here, they have the sides are
parallel to the side opposite and all of the sides are equal. Let's do a few more of these. What is the type of
this quadrilateral? Be as specific as possible
with the given data . So we have two pairs of
sides that are parallel, or I should say one pair. We have a pair of sides
that are parallel. And then we have another
pair of sides that are not. So this is a trapezoid. But then they have
two choices here. They have trapezoid and
isosceles trapezoid. Now an isosceles
trapezoid is a trapezoid where the two non-parallel
sides have the same length, just like an isosceles
triangle, you have two sides have the same length. Well we could see these two
non-parallel sides do not have the same length. So this is not an
isosceles trapezoid. If they did have the
same length, then we would pick that
because that would be more specific
than just trapezoid. But this case right over here,
this is just a trapezoid. Let's do one more of these. What is the type of
this quadrilateral? Well we could say
it's a parallelogram because all of the
sides are parallel. But if we wanted to
be more specific, you could also see that
all the sides are the same. So you could say it's
a rhombus, but you could get even more
specific than that. You notice that
all the sides are intersecting at right angles. So this is-- if we wanted to be
as specific as possible-- this is a square. Let me check the answer. Got it right.