6-3 Rectangles Objectives: To recognize and apply the conditions that ensure a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
Vocabulary Rectangle
Rectangle A rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. Since a rectangle has opposite angles congruent, it must then be a parallelogram. It therefore has all the properties of a parallelogram.
Theorem 6-9 If a parallelogram is a rectangle, then its diagonals are congruent
Here is a summary of the properties of a rectangle.
Example 1
Homework 6-3 Worksheet