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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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No 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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John Climer

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3y ago
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A rectangle has 2 pairs of parallel sides.

A trapezium has 1 pair of parallel sides.


Since 2 does not equal 1, these two shapes can never be equivalent.

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9y ago
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A trapezoid is any quadrilateral (four sided figure) with two parallel sides. All rectangles are parallelograms, and all parallelograms are trapezoids. However, only some trapezoids are rectangles.

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14y ago
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No but they are both 4 sided quadrilaterals

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