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It depends on whether you consider rectangles and other parallelograms to be forms of trapezoids.
If a rectangle can be considered a special case of a trapezoid (UK trapezium), and an isosceles trapezoid is modified so that any of its angles is 90 degrees, then it is a rectangle. In other words, it becomes a trapezoid with all right angles.
However, you can also consider that trapezoids and parallelograms are two different kinds of quadrilaterals: trapezoids having one set of parallel sides and parallelograms having two sets. Then a trapezoid can never be a rectangle, or it would just be called a rectangle.
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MaxineNo I don't think so. A trapezoid by definition has only one set of parallel sides, but for a rectangle both sets of sides must be parallel.
They are both quadrilaterals but 2 different types of quadrilaterals.
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Is a trapezoid and a rectangle a polygon?
A trapezoid and a rectangle are both polygons.
Is every rhombus a parallelogram rectangle square or trapezoid?
'A square is a type of rectangle, a rectangle is a type of paralellogram, a paralellogram is a type of trapezoid, a trapezoid is a type of quadrilateral.
Is a rectangle always a trapezoid?
A rectangle is never a trapezoid because a rectangle does not have exactly 1 pair of parallel sides
Why is a rectangle a trapezoid?
A rectangle is not a trapezoid. A trapezoid is defined as a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides and another pair that is not parallel. That description cannot be applied to a rectangle. It is only if you define a trapezoid as a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides and say nothing at all about the other sides, can a rectangle be said to be a trapezoid. But you would have to be mathematically incompetent to use that as a definition of a trapezoid.
How is a trapezoid different to a rectangle?
a trapezoid has 1 pair of parallel lines and a rectangle has 2 parallel lines
