Question

Huntington Park officials approved a rectangular plot of land for a Japanese Zen garden. Is it sufficient to know that opposite sides of the garden plot are congruent and parallel to determine that the garden plot is rectangular? Explain

Answer 1

Answer: No, it is not sufficient to know that opposite sides of the garden plot are congruent and parallel to determine that the garden plot is rectangular.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. You have the following information given in the problem:

- Opposite sides of the garden plot are congruent.

- Opposite sides of the garden plot are parallel.

2. Therefore, keeping the information above on mind, you can conclude that the description is about a parallelogram, but to determine that it is rectangular, you need to know that the four interior angles measure 90° and the diagonals are congruent.