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Rectangles (Perimeter & Area)



Important Notes
  • The main identifying property of a rectangle is its four interior right angles. You cannot construct a rectangle without those four angles adding to 360° and each measuring 90°.
  • The perimeter of a rectangle is the sum of the length of its four sides. Since parallel sides of a rectangle have the same length, the formula for the perimeter of a rectangle=2 (length + width).
  • Area of a rectangle can be determined by the formula, A=length * width, where A is the area of the rectangle.
  • A crossed rectangle is a crossed (self-intersecting) quadrilateral which consists of two opposite sides of a rectangle along with the two diagonals. It is a special case of an antiparallelogram and its angles are not right angles. Other geometries such as spherical, elliptic and hyperbolic, have so-called rectangles with opposite sides equal in length and equal angles that are not right angles.
  • Examples of Rectangular shapes can be seen in bricks, cement blocks, picture frames, posters, sheets of paper, the sides of shoe boxes, cereal boxes and a lot of other everyday objects.
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Rectangles

The word rectangle comes from the Latin rectangulus, which is a combination of rectus (as an adjective, right, straight) and angulus (angle). A Rectangle is a four sided-quadrilateral having all the internal angles to be right-angled (90°). It can also be defined as an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4=90°).
It can also be defined as a parallelogram containing a right angle. The opposite sides of a rectangle have the same lengths and are parallel. The two sides are said to be parallel when the distance between them remains the same at all points. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a square.

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