Properties of quadrilaterals

Question 1

What do I know about opposite sides in a square?

Answer 1

Opposite sides are parallel and the same length.

Question 2

What do interior angles add up to?

Answer 2

360 degrees.

Question 3

What do exterior angles add up to?

Answer 3

360 degrees (same with every polygon).

Question 4

What property does every quadrilateral have? (except a kite)

Answer 4

All opposite sides are parallel to each other.

Question 5

Do rhombuses have congruent sides?

Answer 5

Yes.

Question 6

How many equal angles does a kite have?

Answer 6

One pair.

Question 7

What shapes have perpendicular diagonals?

Answer 7

Rhombuses, kites and squares.

Question 8

Do trapezoids have parallel sides?

Answer 8

Yes, but only one pair.

Question 9

Do isosceles trapezoids have congruent sides?

Answer 9

Yes, but only one pair.

Question 10

True or false: Rectangles have 2 pairs of parallel sides.

Answer 10

True.

Question 11

True or false: The sides of a parallelogram aren’t congruent.

Answer 11

False, the sides of a parallelogram are congruent.

Question 12

What do I know about angles in a square?

Answer 12

They have 4 equal angles; all 90 degrees and equaling 360 degrees.

Question 13

Do rectangles have four equal sides?

Answer 13

No, they have two pairs of equal sides.

Question 14

True or false: Trapezoids have 2 pairs of parallel sides.

Answer 14

False, they have one pair of parallel sides.

Question 15

What is a quadrilateral?

Answer 15

A quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides.

Question 16

What are examples of quadlrilaterals?

Answer 16

Squares, parallelograms, rectangles, kites, etc.

Question 17

What types of angles do parallelograms have?

Answer 17

Parallelograms have both acute and obtuse angles. They do not have right angles.