Examples with solutions for Isosceles Trapezoids: True / false

Exercise #1

True OR False:

In all isosceles trapezoids the bases are equal.

Video Solution

Step-by-Step Solution

True: in every isosceles trapezoid the base angles are equal to each other.

Answer

True

Exercise #2

Do the diagonals of the trapezoid necessarily bisect each other?

Step-by-Step Solution

The diagonals of an isosceles trapezoid are always equal to each other,

but they do not necessarily bisect each other.

(Reminder, "bisect" means that they meet exactly in the middle, meaning they are cut into two equal parts, two halves)

For example, the following trapezoid ABCD, which is isosceles, is drawn.

Using a computer program we calculate the center of the two diagonals,

And we see that the center points are not G, but the points E and F.

This means that the diagonals do not bisect.

 

 

Answer

No

Exercise #3

¿Los triángulos marcados son isósceles?

(ΔABE,ΔCED)  (ΔABE,ΔCED)\text{ }

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Video Solution

Answer

True