Friday, August 13, 2010

Question 3 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  These are both rhombuses:    +--------+   |        |        +--------+   |        |       /        /   |        |      /        /   |        |     /        /   +--------+    +--------+  But only this is a square:    +--------+   |        |   |        |   |        |   |        |   +--------+ 


1 comment:

  1. Something went wrong when I posted onto the blog and I had named it the wrong question. Sorry.

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