Friday, August 13, 2010

Question 1 by Looi Wei Chern

Question for discussion

Based on the above conversation discuss, with examples and justification whether the following statement is        justified.

'A square is a rhombus but a rhombus is not a square'.

A rhombus is a quadrilateral whose four sides are all congruent.    
A square is a quadrilateral whose four sides are all congruent and whose angles are all right angles.  
 In other words, a square is a rhombus that is also a rectangle.  
The above two quadrilateral are both rhombuses but the four sided, with vertex of 90 degrees is a square, not a rhombus:

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