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Question from anisha, a student: how many lines of symmetry does a parallelogram have. A square and a rectangle are a |
Anisha,
A general parallelogram has no lines of symmetry. Some special ones (rhombus, rectangle, square) have lines of symmetry.
However, a parallelogram does have a crucial symmetry - the half-turn around the central point where they two diagonals intersect.
Walter
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