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OpenStudy (anonymous):

hello

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Hello, are you having trouble with a problem?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yess and its really lame..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay well what is the problem? I can try to help you answer it.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

well i know that its a shap like a dimon or a kite but i dont know what it is really called

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay, so you are trying to identify the name of a shape? Like diamond, kite, pyramid, etc?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

mhhh its not llike a pyramid its sortof like a triangle with a upside down triangle underneth it.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay can you take a look at this picture and see if this is kinda what it looks like? It is from thesaurus math. http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/media/png/Parallelogram.png

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ehh sortof but more slanted

OpenStudy (anonymous):

http://www.mathwarehouse.com/geometry/quadrilaterals/parallelograms/images/sides/parallelogram-sides2.jpg more like this? Have you studied parallelograms before?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeaa

OpenStudy (anonymous):

but thats not the shape):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay so it has 4 sides like a "box" or "rectangle" and its not a parallelogram?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

its not a parallelogrm its two parallel sides and two nonparellel

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Do the lines/sides of the figure ever intersect or cross over each other? like in this photo? http://www.mathleague.com/help/geometry/IMG00052.GIF

OpenStudy (anonymous):

then may be its a trapezoid

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