We encounter similar difficulties when we substitute rectangles for triangles in this configuration.
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Rectangles
Synonyms for "rectangles" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
bounding box
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Noun(1 words)
rectangular quadrilateral
Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
rectangular regionright angled quadrilateral
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5 entriesaxis aligned rectanglebounding rectanglerectangle arearectangle perimeterrotated rectangle
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3 total sentences available.
All squares are rectangles.
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In general, the area of a quadrilateral cannot be written as a function of its side lengths, but there are exceptions, such as rectangles or more generally cyclic quadrilaterals, whose vertices lie on a common circle.
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