Two rectangles are drawn on the sides of a square.
Determine whether the opposite sides parallel in the diagram?
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Two rectangles are drawn on the sides of a square.
Determine whether the opposite sides parallel in the diagram?
The two pairs of opposite sides are parallel because the two rectangles are connected to form a square, creating a 90-degree angle.
Therefore, the opposite sides in the drawing must be parallel.
Yes
The lines below are not the same size, but are they parallel?
Opposite sides are the ones that don't share a vertex (corner). In a rectangle, if you pick any side, the side directly across from it (not touching it) is the opposite side.
By definition, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. When opposite sides both meet the other two sides at 90°, they must be parallel to each other!
It wouldn't matter! Any rectangle has opposite sides that are parallel, regardless of how it's positioned or what it's connected to. This is a fundamental property of rectangles.
Look at each rectangle separately. In the left rectangle, top and bottom sides are parallel. In the right rectangle, top and bottom sides are parallel. The vertical sides of each rectangle are also parallel to each other.
No! The square just connects the rectangles. Each rectangle maintains its own parallel opposite sides regardless of what it's attached to. The square has its own parallel opposite sides too!
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