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Example Questions
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Area Of A Parallelogram
Figure NOT drawn to scale
The above figure shows Rhombus ; and are midpoints of their respective sides. Rectangle has area 150.
Give the area of Rhombus .
A rhombus, by definition, has four sides of equal length. Therefore, . Also, since and are the midpoints of their respective sides,
We will assign to the common length of the four half-sides of the rhombus.
Also, both and are altitudes of the rhombus; the are congruent, and we will call their common length (height).
The figure, with the lengths, is below.
Rectangle has dimensions and ; its area, 150, is the product of these dimensions, so
The area of the entire Rhombus is the product of its height and the length of a base , so
.
Example Question #261 : Plane Geometry
In the above parallelogram, is acute. Which is the greater quantity?
(A) The perimeter of the parallelogram
(B) 46 inches
(A) is greater
(B) is greater
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(A) and (B) are equal
(A) and (B) are equal
The measure of is actually irrelevant. The perimeter of the parallelogram is the sum of its four sides; since opposite sides of a parallelogram have the same length, the perimeter is
inches,
making the quantities equal.
Example Question #262 : Plane Geometry
Parallelogram A is below:
Parallelogram B is below:
Note: These figures are NOT drawn to scale.
Refer to the parallelograms above. Which is the greater quantity?
(A) The perimeter of parallelogram A
(B) The perimeter of parallelogram B
(A) is greater
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(A) and (B) are equal
(B) is greater
(A) is greater
The perimeter of a parallelogram is the sum of its sidelengths; its height is irrelevant. Also, opposite sides of a parallelogram are congruent.
The perimeter of parallelogram A is
inches;
The perimeter of parallelogram B is
inches.
(A) is greater.
Example Question #3 : Parallelograms
Figure NOT drawn to scale.
The above figure depicts Rhombus with and .
Give the perimeter of Rhombus .
All four sides of a rhombus have the same length, so we can find the perimeter of Rhombus by taking the length of one side and multiplying it by four. Since , the perimeter is four times this, or .
Note that the length of is actually irrelevant to the problem.
Example Question #3 : Parallelograms
In Parallelogram , and . Which of the following is greater?
(A)
(B)
(a) is the greater quantity
(a) and (b) are equal
(b) is the greater quantity
It cannot be determined which of (a) and (b) is greater
It cannot be determined which of (a) and (b) is greater
In Parallelogram , and are adjoining sides; there is no specific rule for the relationship between their lengths. Therefore, no conclusion can be drawn of and , and no conclusion can be drawn of the relationship between and .
Example Question #3 : Parallelograms
Which of the following can be the measures of the four angles of a parallelogram?
Opposite angles of a parallelogram must have the same measure, so the correct choice must have two pairs, each of the same angle measure. We can therefore eliminate and as choices.
Also, the sum of the measures of the angles of any quadrilateral must be , so we add the angle measures of the remaining choices:
:
, so we can eliminate this choice.
:
, so we can eliminate this choice.
; this is the correct choice.
Example Question #4 : Parallelograms
Refer to the above figure, which shows a parallelogram. What is equal to?
Not enough information is given to answer this question.
The sum of two consecutive angles of a parallelogram is .
157 is the correct choice.
Example Question #61 : Quadrilaterals
In Parallelogram , and .
Which is the greater quantity?
(a)
(b)
It cannot be determined which of (a) and (b) is greater
(b) is the greater quantity
(a) and (b) are equal
(a) is the greater quantity
(b) is the greater quantity
In Parallelogram , and are opposite angles and are therefore congruent. This means that
Both are positive, so .
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Rhombus
In Rhombus , and . Which is the greater quantity?
(A)
(B)
(a) is the greater quantity
It cannot be determined which of (a) and (b) is greater
(a) and (b) are equal
(b) is the greater quantity
(a) is the greater quantity
The four sides of a rhombus, by defintion, have equal length, so
Since and are positive, .
Example Question #1 : Rhombuses
A rhombus has diagonals of length two and one-half feet and six feet. Which is the greater quantity?
(A) The perimeter of the rhombus
(B) Four yards
(A) and (B) are equal
(A) is greater
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(B) is greater
(A) is greater
It will be easier to look at these measurements as inches for the time being:
and , so these are the lengths of the diagonals in inches.
The diagonals of a rhombus are each other's perpendicular bisector, so, as can be seen in the diagram below, one side of a rhombus and one half of each diagonal form a right triangle. If we let be the length of one side of the rhombus, then this is the hypotenuse of that right triangle; its legs are one-half the lengths of the diagonals, or 15 and 36 inches.
By the Pythagorean Theorem,
Each side of the rhombus measures 39 inches, and its perimeter is
inches.
Four yards is equal to inches, so (A) is greater.