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What describes a rectangle?
A rectangle is any shape with four sides and four right angles. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares (all the sides in a square have to be the same length).
What is a rectangle but not a rectangle?
A square is called a special kind of rectangle because it has some additional properties which do not apply to rectangles. They are: All four sides of a square are equal.
What is not a rectangle?
Since it has two sets of parallel sides and two pairs of opposite sides that are congruent, a rectangle has all of the properties of a parallelogram. However, a parallelogram is not always a rectangle. The below example is of a parallelogram that does not have four right angles.
What are not properties of rectangles?
Properties of the quadrilaterals – An overview
| Properties of quadrilaterals | Rectangle | Trapezium |
|---|---|---|
| All Sides are equal | No | No |
| Opposite Sides are equal | Yes | No |
| Opposite Sides are parallel | Yes | Yes |
| All angles are equal | Yes | No |
What are rectangle properties?
Convex polygon
Isogonal figure
Rectangle/Properties
Why is a rectangle not square?
Thus, every square is a rectangle because it is a quadrilateral with all four angles right angles. Hence, not every rectangle is a square, to be a square its sides must have the same length.
Why not all rectangles are squares?
Definition: A rectangle is a quadrilateral with all four angles right angles. Thus every square is a rectangle because it is a quadrilateral with all four angles right angles. However not every rectangle is a square, to be a square its sides must have the same length.
Which characteristics are for a rectangle but not a parallelogram?
A rectangle HAS to have angles of 90º, but a parallelogram does not.