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Re: Geometry #21
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Aug 18, 2011 12:49 PM
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It could be an isosceles trapezoid, but that's not the question as
asked. We really should be expecting mathematically precise language.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:08 PM, elizwaite@aol.com wrote:
> Right...but were you saying that out of the 4 choices none were
> correct?
> Liz
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan <jd2718@gmail.com>
> To: nyshsmath <nyshsmath@mathforum.org>
> Sent: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 10:52 am
> Subject: Re: Geometry #21
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> In a kite, neither pair of sides is parallel.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:32 AM, elizwaite@aol.com wrote:
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>> I believe isosceles trapezoid is correct. Although I do recall an
>> earlier conversation on this list from several years ago where a
>> few people defined a trapezoid as a quadrilateral with AT LEAST one
>> pair of parallel sides where most of us used EXACTLY one pair of
>> parallel sides. This would make a difference, I think.
>> Liz Waite
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonathan <jd2718@gmail.com>
>> To: nyshsmath <nyshsmath@mathforum.org>
>> Sent: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 10:24 am
>> Subject: Geometry #21
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>> The diagonals of a quadrilateral are congruent but do not bisect
>> eac other. The quadrilateral is:
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>> Iso trapezoid
>> Parallelogram
>> Rectangle
>> Rhombus
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>> But none of these are necessarily correct (kite, anyone?)
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Iva Jean Tennant <tennantij@aol.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi All-
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