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Rebekkie said:
it is. assuming you actually want the explanation - it satisfies the requirements for a rectangle being all angles (4) being of 90 degrees, opposite sides being of equal length and diagonals bisecting each other.
Yup.

Just like a square is also a special parallogram, and a special quadrilateral.
 

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Rebekkie said:
it is. assuming you actually want the explanation - it satisfies the requirements for a rectangle being all angles (4) being of 90 degrees, opposite sides being of equal length and diagonals bisecting each other.
That :)


Yea it is, if all sides are equal its a square :)
 

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Really?
I always thought a square was a square and a rectangle was a rectangle. :)
 

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Yeah
It has all the properties of a rectangle PLUS four equal sides, therefore diagonals are perpendicular to each other
 

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