Explanation:
Quadrilateral
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Six different types of quadrilaterals
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Edges and Vertices
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4
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Internal angles (degrees)
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90° (for square)
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In Euclidean plane geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides (or 'edges') and four vertices or corners. Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used, by analogy with triangle, and sometimes tetragon for consistency with pentagon (5-sided), hexagon (6-sided) and so on. The word quadrilateral is made of the words quad (meaning "four") and lateral (meaning "of
sides").The interior angles of a simple quadrilateral add up to 360 degrees of arc
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The sum of
the lengths of any two sides of a triangle always exceeds the length of the
third side, a principle known as the triangle inequality. (Our solved example in mathguru.com uses this concept)
Since the
vertices of a triangle are assumed to be non-collinear, it is not possible for
the sum of the length of two sides be equal to the length of the third side.
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