document.write( "Question 1131244: If WXYZ is a parallelogram, which of the following must always be true?\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "A. line WY and line YX bisect each other
\n" ); document.write( "B. angle XWZ is congruent to angle XYZ
\n" ); document.write( "C. line WY is perpendicular to line ZX
\n" ); document.write( "D. line WY is congruent to line ZX
\n" ); document.write( "E. line ZX bisects angle WXY
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\n" ); document.write( "Parallelograms (and other polygons) are named
\n" ); document.write( "by listing letter names of the vertices
\n" ); document.write( "in the order you see them as you go around the parallelogram.
\n" ); document.write( "So, parallelogram WXYZ would look something like this:
\n" ); document.write( " Line segments WY and XZ are diagonals.
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\n" ); document.write( "A. \"A\" is never true.
\n" ); document.write( "Diagonals bisect each other in all parallelograms,
\n" ); document.write( "and WY is a diagonal, that bisects diagonal XZ,
\n" ); document.write( "but XY is a side that meets diagonal WY and point Y,
\n" ); document.write( "which is an endpoint of both segments.
\n" ); document.write( "It is not the midpoint of either segment.
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\n" ); document.write( "B. \"highlight%28B%29\" must always be true.
\n" ); document.write( "Angles XWZ and XYZ are opposite angles in WXYZ,
\n" ); document.write( "and opposite angles in a parallelogram are always congruent.
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\n" ); document.write( "C. \"C\" is not always true.
\n" ); document.write( "It is true for a rhombus
\n" ); document.write( "(or a square that is a special type of rhombus),
\n" ); document.write( "but it is not true for other parallelograms,
\n" ); document.write( "like the one on the figure above.
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\n" ); document.write( "D. \"D\" is not always true.
\n" ); document.write( "It is for a rectangle
\n" ); document.write( "(or a square that is a special type of rectangle),
\n" ); document.write( "but it is not true for other parallelograms,
\n" ); document.write( "like the one on the figure above.
\n" ); document.write( "You can see that XZ is much shorter than WY.
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\n" ); document.write( "E. \"E\" is not always true.
\n" ); document.write( "It is true for a rhombus
\n" ); document.write( "(or a square that is a special type of rhombus),
\n" ); document.write( "but it is not true for other parallelograms,
\n" ); document.write( "like the one on the figure above.
\n" ); document.write( "You can see that angle ZXY, measuring about \"45%5Eo\"
\n" ); document.write( "is much smaller than angle WXZ,
\n" ); document.write( "so those two angles adding up to angle WXY are not congruent.\r
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