Geometry Advanced 7.

4 Properties of Special Parallelograms Mathematician: ___________________

Notes Date: ________________ Period: ___
Read Sec. 7.4 Highlight the definitions for these special parallelograms on your packet.

What is a Rhombus? A Rectangle? A Square? …and how are they related

to Parallelograms?

Corollary 7.2 Rhombus Corollary:

A quadrilateral is a rhombus if and only if it ________________________________________.

Corollary 7.3 Rectangle Corollary:

A quadrilateral is a rectangle if and only if it ________________________________________.

Ex 1: Given RSTU is a rectangle with 𝑚∠STR = 8x + 3 and 𝑚∠UTR = 16x – 9, find 𝑚∠STR.

Corollary 7.4 Square Corollary:

A quadrilateral is a square if and only if it _______________________________________________.

Ex 2: Use the diagram above to complete each of the questions about quadrilaterals using always, sometimes or never.

a. A square is _______________________________________________ a rectangle.

b. A rhombus _______________________________________________ has 4 congruent angles.

c. A rectangle _______________________________________________ has 4 congruent sides.

d. A parallelogram _______________________________________________ has diagonals that bisect each other.

✓ We can use the following biconditionals below to prove that a parallelogram is a rhombus or a rectangle.

Theorem 7.11 Rhombus Diagonals Theorem:

A parallelogram is a rhombus if and only if it ________________________________________.

Theorem 7.12 Rhombus Opposite Angles Theorem:

A parallelogram is a rhombus if and only if it ________________________________________.

Ex 3: Given rhombus ABCD, find the measure of all the numbered angles.

Ex 4: Given rhombus ABCD, 𝑚∠BAC = 2x + 10 and 𝑚∠BAD = x2 – 2x + 4. Find the measure of ∠ABC.

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Theorem 7.13 Rectangle Diagonals Theorem:

A parallelogram is a rectangle if and only if it ________________________________________.

Ex 5: Given RSTU is a rectangle with US = 6x + 3 and RT = 7x – 2, find UQ.

Ex 6: Decide whether ABCD with vertices A(-2, 3), B(2, 2), C(1, -2) and D(-3, -1) is a rectangle, rhombus, or square.