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Question from Jaime, a student: Is a square a rectangle? |
Hi Jaime,
The short answer is yes.
The definition of a rectangle used by most authors is a parallelogram, all of whose angles are right angles and hence a square is a rectangle. A square meets the requirements to be a rectangle but it also has another property, all of its sides are congruent.
Penny
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