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Why is a trapezoid a quadilateral but not a parallelogram?

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Updated: 11/4/2022

A trapeziod is a plane figure bounded by four straight sides. That makes it a quadrilateral. It does not have two sets of parallel lines so it cannot be a parallelogram.

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