Question

Repeat the above activity, this time with a pair of 45°-45°-90° set-squares.

(i) How does the figure change now? Is it a parallelogram? It becomes a square! (How did it happen?)

(ii) What can we say about its lengths of sides, angles and diagonals? Discuss and list them out.

(iii) How does it differ from the list we prepared for the rectangle?

Answer 1

(i) All sides are equal

(ii) All sides are equal

All angles = 90°

Diagonals equal

(iii) All sides are equal.

Diagonals bisects each other.