Rectangles, Squares and Rhombus

A rectangle is a parallelogram and also has which properties:

• four right angles

• diagonals are congruent

• diagonals form a right angle AKA are perpendicular

• four congruent sides

Tags

CCSS.HSG.CO.C.11

A square is a parallelogram which includes all of which properties?

• four right angles

• diagonals bisect eachother and are congruent

• diagonals form a right angle AKA are perpendicular

• four congruent sides

• diagonals bisect opposite angles

Tags

CCSS.HSG.CO.C.11

Which quadrilaterals have two pairs of opposite sides that are parallel?

• rectangle

• rhombus

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• square

Tags

CCSS.4.G.A.2

Which quadrilaterals have two pairs of opposite sides that are congruent?

• rectangle

• rhombus

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• square

Tags

CCSS.5.G.B.4

Which quadrilaterals have four congruent sides?

• rectangle

• rhombus

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• square

Tags

CCSS.5.G.B.4

Which quadrilaterals have four right angles?

• rectangle

• rhombus

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• square

Tags

CCSS.5.G.B.4

• rectangle

• rhombus

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• square

Which quadrilaterals have diagonals that bisect eachother?

• rectangle

• rhombus

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• square

Which quadrilaterals have diagonals that are perpendicular?

• rectangle

• rhombus

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• square

Answer explanation

Diagonals will be perpendicular if the parallelogram has four congruent sides. Only rhombi and squares have four congruent sides.

All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.

• true

• false

Tags

CCSS.5.G.B.4