Some Special Parallelograms
Some Special Parallelograms: Overview
This topic discusses some special parallelograms. They are rhombus, rectangle and square. In a parallelogram, the diagonals can be of different lengths but the rectangle has diagonals of equal length.
Important Questions on Some Special Parallelograms
Name the quadrilateral whose diagonals are equal.
Name the quadrilateral whose diagonals are perpendicular bisectors of each other.
Explain how a square is a parallelogram.
Explain how a square is a rhombus.
Explain how a square is a rectangle.
Identify all the quadrilaterals that have four right angles.
All squares are trapeziums.
All parallelograms are trapeziums.
All rhombuses are kites.
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State whether true or false:
All kites are rhombuses.
All squares are not parallelograms
All squares are rhombuses and also rectangles.
All rhombuses are parallelograms.
All rectangles are squares.
is a right-angled triangle and is the mid-point of the side opposite to the right angle. Explain why is equidistant from and . (The dotted lines are drawn additionally to help you.)

Explain why a rectangle is a convex quadrilateral.
Name the quadrilateral whose diagonals bisect each other.
Explain how a square is a quadrilateral.
Identify all the quadrilaterals that have four sides of equal lengths.
