SOLUTION: Suppose the midpoints of all four sides of an isosceles trapezoid are joined in order. Is the resulting quadrilateral equilateral, equiangular, both, or neither?
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Question 1032355: Suppose the midpoints of all four sides of an isosceles trapezoid are joined in order. Is the resulting quadrilateral equilateral, equiangular, both, or neither?
Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Suppose the midpoints of all four sides of an isosceles trapezoid are joined in order. Is the resulting quadrilateral equilateral, equiangular, both, or neither?
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The resulting quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
See the lesson Midpoints of a quadrilateral are vertices of the parallelogram in this site.
It is neither equilateral, nor equiangular, in general.
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