Because the corners of both rectangles and squares are 90 degrees (right angles) - and opposite sides of rectangles and squares are always parallel !
A rectangle has 4 right angles and 2 pairs of parallel sides.
a rectangle or a square
No because a rectangle is parallel lines and a square is four right angles.
A square fulfills all the properties of a rectangle: four sides; opposite sides are parallel; all angles are right angles.
A square has 4 equal sides, and 4 equal angles and are considered paralellagrams A rectangle has 4 equal angles but not necessarily 4 equal sides, it is also a parallelagram.. On a square all sides are congruent, while in a rectangle only opposite sides are. So when is a square not a rectangle? what defines a rectangle and a square, each shape has to have 4 right angles. the sides are parallel and that in a square all four sides are congruent while in a rectangle only the opposite sides are congruent. So a rectangle must have opposite sides that are parallel and equal and four right angles. A square must have opposite sides parallel, all sides congruent, and four right angles. a rectangle is a parallelogram with four right angles, while a square is a parallelogram with four congruent sides and four right angles. By this definition a rectangle is a square since it has opposite sides that are congruent and parallel and it has four right angles. The question is, why a rectangle is not a square? A rectangle is not a square because it is not required to have four congruent sides.
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A rectangle.
A square is identified as a rectangle because a rectangle needs to have 2 pairs of parallel sides and 4 right angles. A rectangle is not a square because it does have 4 right angles but it does not have 4 equal sides.
Rectangle or square. If all the sides are the same size then it is a square. if not, it is a rectangle.