I’m helping my niece with her math assignment, which is to look for examples of the different types of quadrilaterals. Is a kite a parallelogram?
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Hmm, a kite isn’t generally considered a parallelogram – it could be, though, if it’s a rhombus.
A kite is a quadrilateral with two disjoint pairs of equal length that are each sharing a vertex.
A parallelogram, just like the kite, has two pairs of equal length, but they aren’t sharing vertexes – they’re on the opposite of each other – parallel to each other.
A rhombus can fall into both categories because all four sides of a rhombus are equal lengths, so you can assign which side to consider. If you consider the adjacent sides, you’ll have a kite. If you consider the parallel sides, you have a parallelogram. You consider both, and you have a kite that’s a parallelogram.