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you can prove any one of these statements to prove that quadrilateral

is a rectangle:

-- Opposite sides are parallel and any one angle is a right angle.

-- Opposite sides are equal and any one angle is a right angle.

-- All four angles are right angles.

-- Adjacent angles are complementary, and one of them is a right angle.

-- Opposite sides are either equal or parallel, and area is equal to the product

of two adjacent sides.

-- Diagonals are equal.

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