Warm-up:
Parallelgrams
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The Problem:
The diagram shows the quadrilateral ABCD (not to scale). Is it a parallelogram?
Given that
, , and
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Solution:
In a parallelogram, opposite angles are equal, therefore,
and
Simplifying, we get,
and
These have solutions,
and
So, if then the quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
Further Reading:
Quadratic Equations
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