SOLUTION: Simon's wallet is in the shape of a rectangle. Two sides are 2 inches long. The other two sides are 3 inches long. Chaz's has the same measurements but is not a rectangle. What ot
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Question 967072: Simon's wallet is in the shape of a rectangle. Two sides are 2 inches long. The other two sides are 3 inches long. Chaz's has the same measurements but is not a rectangle. What other figure could it be? Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There is more than one answer.
The expected answer is probably "a parallelogram".
However, all we know is that half of the wallet consist of
one of the 3-inch long sides,
attached at a corner to one of the 2-inch long sides,
making some angle that is not a right angle: or .
The other two sides (one 3-inch side and one 2-inch side)
also form a triangle with that green diagonal.
With 3 congruent sides, it is a congruent triangle, but we have some options:
parallelogram =
or kite .
There could even be concave kites, like this:
