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The Many Faces of a Square

May 1, 2021

A square happily accepts being called a parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus and kite, but is outraged to be called a trapezoid.

Drawn for Art of Problem Solving (AoPS).

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-05-01-the-many-faces-of-a-square/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

[Title] "The Many Faces of a Square" The same square labeled: Parallelogram · Rectangle · Rhombus · Kite · Kite, again · Trapezoid ("HOW DARE YOU?? I AM NOT A FILTHY TRAPEZOID")

Topics
Geometry › Quadrilaterals › SquaresGeometry › Quadrilaterals › ClassificationGeometry › Quadrilaterals › Trapezoids
Level
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh School
Themes
Visual ExplanationsLanguage & Wordplay
People
Art of Problem Solving