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All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. Basically, a square is a rectangle where all sides are the same length. However, providing that the width is half of the length, or vice versa, and you join the two rectangles along the one of the sides that is longer, two rectangles can make a square. Example: 1x2 rectangle joined with another 1x2 rectangle will make a 2x2 square.
Because they (IMO) have the simplest area to find, to just square side. Triangles are half of a square Rectangles are uneven. Circles are rounded, and hard to find the area of. Plus, a square has 2 equal dimensions, so think 2D.
That will depend on their dimensions which have not been given.
169 square inches. Folding the square in half leaves 2 edges of the original side length and two of half the side length. Therefore: perimeter = side + 1/2 side + side + 1/2 side = 3 sides ⇒ 3 sides = 39 inches ⇒ 1 side = 39 inches ÷ 3 = 13 inches ⇒ area_original_square = 13 inches x 13 inches = 169 square inches.
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Yes cutting a rectangle in half (either horizontally or vertically) will yield two smaller rectangles (each of which is the same size and shape as the other).
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Yes, you can cut a rectangle any way you please.
They make two congruent rectangles, not to rectangles! This is because the line joining the midpoints of opposite sides are lines of [reflective] symmetry.
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