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Sure they are. They fulfill all the requirements of a trapezoid. To be precise, it depends how exactly you choose to define a trapezoid. If you define a trapezoid as a quadrilateral which has AT LEAST one pair of parallel sides, then that applies to rectangles as well. If you want it to have EXACTLY one pair of parallel sides, then a rectangle is not a trapezoid, since it has two pairs of parallel sides.
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How are rectangles and trapezoids alike?
Both trapezoids and rectangles are quadrilaterals.
How are rectangles and trapezoids similar?
how are trapezoids and rectangles
What quadrilaterals are not trapezoids?
squares and rectangles
What are quadrilaterals that aren't rectangles?
Squares, parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids are quadrilaterals that are not rectangles.
How are squares rectangles parallelogram and trapezoids are different?
they are not congruent
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