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It depends on the context of the sentence. Squares may be considered as a special case of rectangles. Alternatively, the term rectangles may be reserved for right-angled quadrilaterals other than squares.
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If 2 rectangles have the same area will they always be similar?
No some times
Why is the square of a number always a positive number?
The square of a number is always two numbers multiplied together. A positive times a positive is always positive, and a negative times a negative is always positive.
Is one fourth a perfect square?
No, a perfect square is the square of an integer number. Fractions are never a perfect square, as the square of an integer is always another integer.Actually fractions can be perfect squares an example is one ninth, it would be one third times one third which equals one ninth.
Why is any number raised to a even power positive?
A positive number times a positive number is always positive. A negative number times a negative number is always positive. Therefore, any square number will be positive. Any number to the fourth power (a square times a square) will always be positive. And so on.
How many .5 square meters in 1 square meter?
2 times 0.5 square meters are in one square meter. 2 times .5 always equals 1.
What has 6 congruent rectangles?
A larger rectangle whose width is twice as long as one of the smaller rectangles and whose length is three times that of one of the smaller rectangles.
What is the perimeter of a square when the length of the diagonal is 15 inches?
15 times the square root of two, all over two A formula is this: The diagonal for a square is always the sides of the square times the square root of 2
A negative times a positive equals?
A negative times a positive is always a negative.
Is the number 48 a square number?
No... it is not, try anything, 8 times 8, 6 times 6, you will never get 48, Therefore, it is not a square number.
How many rectangles are there in a 3 by 4 grid?
There are 36 rectangles of various sizes formed by a 9-rectangle grid. The most obvious are the smallest (9) and the largest (1), but any 2, 3, 4, or 6 adjacent rectangles can form other rectangles.
How many sides dose 4 rectangles have?
Do 4 sides times 4 rectangles. So it would be 4x4=16 sides
If you fold a square piece of paper in half 5 times how many squares would you have?
The last fold will be ineffective in making squares. If you fold a square in half it becomes two rectangles - one on top of the other. This "square" (pardon me, but the site doesn't do accurate 'drawing') shows the folding process. |--------------------------------| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |--------------------------------| when folded back, becomes |----------------| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |----------------| and when that is folded upwards, it becomes four squares |----------------| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |----------------| The third fold makes eight rectangles.... |--------| |..........| |..........| |..........| |..........| |--------| And the fourth fold makes sixteen squares... |--------| |..........| |..........| |--------| Another fold - a fifth - would bring us back to rectangles again. There would be 32 of them. |----| |.....| |.....| |----|
