Practice with Quadrilaterals

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Course: GKT101: General Knowledge for Teachers – Math
Book: Practice with Quadrilaterals
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Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 9:33 AM

Description

Complete these exercises and check your answers.

Table of contents

Questions

Decide whether each statement is always, sometimes, or never true. Explain your answer.

1. A square is a rectangle.

2. A rhombus is a square.

3. An isosceles trapezoid is a trapezoid.

4. A parallelogram is a quadrilateral.

5. A square is a parallelogram.

6. A trapezoid is a parallelogram.

Decide what type of quadrilateral it must be and what type of quadrilateral it could be based on the description.

7. A quadrilateral has 4 congruent angles.

8. A quadrilateral has 2 pairs of congruent sides.

9. Draw a kite. Draw in its diagonals. Make at least one conjecture about the diagonals of kites.

10. Draw a rectangle. Draw in its diagonals. Make at least one conjecture about the diagonals of rectangles.

11. Draw a rhombus. Draw in its diagonals. Make at least one conjecture about the diagonals of rhombuses.

12. Draw a kite. Make a conjecture about the opposite angles of kites.

Use the markings on the shapes below to identify the shape. Then, solve for \begin{align*}x\end{align*}Note: pictures are not drawn to scale.



Source: CK-12, https://flexbooks.ck12.org/cbook/ck-12-interactive-geometry-for-ccss/section/1.5/primary/lesson/quadrilaterals-geo-ccss/

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Answers

  1. Always true.
  2. Sometimes true.
  3. Always true.
  4. Always true.
  5. Always true.
  6. Never true.
  7. Must be a rectangle (and therefore a parallelogram), could be a square.
  8. Must be a quadrilateral. Could be a kite, parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, or square depending on which sides are congruent and additional properties.
  9. Possible conjectures: diagonals are perpendicular, one diagonal bisects the other, one diagonal bisects its angles.
  10. Possible conjectures: diagonals are congruent, diagonals bisect each other.
  11. Possible conjectures: diagonals are perpendicular, diagonals bisect each other.
  12. Possible conjecture: one pair of opposite angles are congruent.