Just wanting to make sure the properties of the quadrilaterals.. If anyone can help me, I will appreciate it a lot, and the one who helps me a lot will receive a medal!!!

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calculusxy · Answer

For the properties of kites, there are "Two disjoint pairs of consecutive sides that are congruent by definition."

Can you explain this with an example?

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

If all 4 sides are congruent, we have a rhombus

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jim_thompson5910 · Answer

If you have 2 pairs of sides that are congruent, the congruent pairs are opposite each other, then you have a parallelogram

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calculusxy · Answer

@jim_thompson5910 Can you only help me on the example that I gave? I don't want to really waste your energy because I need help on other statements though.

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

now if you were to arrange the sides of that parallelogram to where the congruent sides were touching, then you'd have this

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which is a kite

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

so that's what they mean by "consecutive sides that are congruent"

calculusxy · Answer

can you explain the part that says "consecutive sides"?

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

"consecutive" means next to or the next term

example: consecutive numbers are numbers like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
basically one after the other and they are as close as possible

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

so consecutive sides are the sides that share a common vertex

calculusxy · Answer

and what does "disjoint" mean?

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

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