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Questions tagged [quadrilateral]

For questions about general quadrilaterals (including parallelograms, trapezoids, rhombi) and their properties.

In Euclidean plane geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides (or edges) and four vertices or corners. Squares, rectangles, rhombi, parallelograms and trapezoids are special kinds of quadrilaterals.

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Does the square or the circle have the greater perimeter? A surprisingly hard problem for high schoolers

An exam for high school students had the following problem: Let the point $E$ be the midpoint of the line segment $AD$ on the square $ABCD$. Then let a circle be determined by the points $E$, $B$ and $C$ as shown on the diagram. Which of the…
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Area of a square inside a square created by connecting point-opposite midpoint

Square $ABCD$ has area $1cm^2$ and sides of $1cm$ each. $H, F, E, G$ are the midpoints of sides $AD, DC, CB, BA$ respectively. What will the area of the square formed in the middle be? I know that this problem can be solved by trigonometry by using…
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Area of parallelogram = Area of square. Shear transform

Below the parallelogram is obtained from square by stretching the top side while fixing the bottom. Since area of parallelogram is base times height, both square and parallelogram have the same area. This is true no matter how far I stretch the top…
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Is every parallelogram a rectangle ??

Let's say we have a parallelogram $\text{ABCD}$. $\triangle \text{ADC}$ and $\triangle \text{BCD}$ are on the same base and between two parallel lines $\text{AB}$ and $\text{CD}$, So, $$ar\triangle \text{ADC}=ar\triangle \text{BCD}$$ Now the things…
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A conjecture involving prime numbers and parallelograms

As already introduced in this post, given the series of prime numbers greater than $9$, let organize them in four rows, according to their last digit ($1,3,7$ or $9$). The column in which they are displayed is the ten to which they belong, as…
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Is there a formula to calculate the area of a trapezoid knowing the length of all its sides?

If all sides: $a, b, c, d$ are known, is there a formula that can calculate the area of a trapezoid? I know this formula for calculating the area of a trapezoid from its two bases and its height: $$S=\frac {a+b}{2}×h$$ And I know a well-known…
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Maximum area of a square in a triangle

I want to calculate the area of the largest square which can be inscribed in a triangle of sides $a, b, c$ . The "square" which I will refer to, from now on, has all its four vertices on the sides of the triangle, and of course is completely…
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Japanese theorem for cyclic quadrilaterals Proof Inversion

Two weeks ago our professor taught us the Japanese theorem for cyclic quadrilaterals. It states that the inscribed centres of the four triangles formed by two sides and a diagonal of a cyclic quadrilateral always form a rectangle. After the proof…
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Trisect a quadrilateral into a $9$-grid; the middle has $1/9$ the area

Trisect sides of a quadrilateral and connect the points to have nine quadrilaterals, as can be seen in the figure. Prove that the middle quadrilateral area is one ninth of the whole area.
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Angles of triangle $\triangle XYZ$ do not depend on the position of point $P$ (proof needed)

Let $ABCD$ be a fixed convex quadrilateral and $P$ be an arbitrary point. Let $S,T,U,V,K,L$ be the projections of $P$ on $AB,CD,AD,BC,AC,BD$ respectively. Let $X,Y,Z$ be the midpoints of $ST,UV,KL$. Is it true that the angles of triangle $\triangle…
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Why study quadrilaterals?

My niece is in the 10th grade, and they have to do lot of theorems related to quadrilaterals. And, I was surprised to know that they have to learn by rote some theorems. This has made her feel that maths is the worst subject (though she likes…
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Volume of an Irregular Octahedron from edge lengths?

Does anyone know how to calculate the volume of an irregular octahedron from the lengths of the edges? The octahedron has triangular faces, but the only information are the edge lengths. Alternatively, how might I calculate the length of a line…
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Interesting tiling with a lot of symmetrical shapes

I have such an interesting observation: if I take a square grid and rotate it over itself by atan(3/4) , it forms a structure which has four axes of reflection symmetry: The resulting structure is really mesmerizing, I see a lot of symmetric shapes…
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Formula for the area of a rhombus

Can you prove the following claim? The claim is inspired by Harcourt's theorem. In any rhombus $ABCD$ construct an arbitrary tangent to the incircle of rhombus . Let $n_1,n_2,n_3,n_4$ be a signed distances from vertices $A,B,C,D$ to tangent line…
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Arbelos and its angle bisector

I have recently been reading about a very interesting geometry problem and have tried to solve it. I'm now in a point, in which I don't know how to move forward and would appreciate if someone could help. The problem is the following Consider an…
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