what are the relationship between a parallelogram and a rhombus , what are the differences ?

help please ....

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what are the relationship between a parallelogram and a rhombus , what are the differences ?

help please ....

mertsj · Answer

A rhombus is a parallelogram.  Its just the it has 4 equal sides.

anonymous · Answer

oh and parallelogram doesnt have four side, and is that it for differences ?

mertsj · Answer

A parallelogram does have four sides.  Its just that they are not equal in length.

anonymous · Answer

oh ok, and thats it

mertsj · Answer

Doesn't your book have any pictures of parallelograms and rhombuses?

anonymous · Answer

yes it does but it doesnt really tell me alot of differences only similarities

mertsj · Answer

The diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular and that is not true for parallelograms.

anonymous · Answer

oh yea thats true , well i think i got it now

anonymous · Answer

parallelogram diagonals bisect each other

mertsj · Answer

Also true of a rhombus.