Final Exam Flashcards
(138 cards)
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What is the box or pigeon hole principle?
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If you have more marbles than boxes and each marble must go in a box, then at least 1 box has multiple marbles.
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What is a point?
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A singular location with no size, is infinitely small, has no dimensions. It is named with capital letters.
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What is a line?
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A “moving point”, it travels in two opposite directions forever. It is one dimensional, named by 2 points, never bends or curves, and is infinitely thin.
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What is a plane?
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A infinitely short/flat/thin surface that spans outward in all directions. It is named with 3 points.
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What is a segment or line segment?
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A “line” that starts out at one point and ends at another. Or a part of a line formed between two points.
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What is a ray?
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A “line” that extends in one direction forever. Or a part of a line that has one endpoint.
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What is an angle?
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2 rays with a common endpoint.
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What are collinear points?
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2 or more points that are on the same line.
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What are coplanar points?
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2 or more points on the same plane.
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(Postulate)Two lines intersect to form a….
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Point.
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(Postulate)Two planes intersect to form a……
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Line.
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(Postulate)Through any two points there is exactly one…..
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Line.
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(Postulate)Through any 3 non-collinear points there is exactly one…..
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Plane.
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(Postulate)If you take two points in a plane, then the line containing those points must…..
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Be on the same plane
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What is inductive reasoning?
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Reaching conclusions based on observations.
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What is a sequence?
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A list of numbers.
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What is a term?
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A number in the list?
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What is an arithmetic sequence?
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A sequence where you add/subtract the same number between consecutive terms.
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What is a geometric sequence?
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A sequence where you multiply by the same number between consecutive terms.
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What are congruent segments?
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2 segments having the same length.
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What is a midpoint?
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A point splitting a segment into 2 congruent segments.
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What is the segment addition postulate?(SAP)
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The distance from A to B and B to C is equal to the distance from A to C. (Part+Part=Whole)
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What are complementary angles?
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2 angles that add up to 90 degrees.
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What are supplementary angles?
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2 angles that add up to 180 degrees.
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What are the three types of angles?
1. Acute(below 90)
2. Right(90)
3. Obtuse(Above 90)
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What are congruent angles?
2 angles with equal measures.
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What is an angle bisector?
A ray that splits an angle into two congruent angles.
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What are adjacent angles?
Two angles that:
1. Have the same vertex
2. Share a ray
3. Dont overlap
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What is a linear pair of angles?
2 adjacent angles that form a line.
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What is the angle addition postulate?(AAP)
AVB+BVC=AVC.(Part+Part=Whole)
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What is a median?
A line segment involving a triangle going from a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side.
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What is a centroid?
The point where the 3 medians of a triangle intersect.
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What are the special properties of a centroid?
1. Center of balance/gravity/mass
| 2. Centroid splits the medians into a 1/3 to 2/3 ratio
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What is an altitude?
A segment involving a triangle going from a vertex perpendicular to the opposite side.
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What is an orthocenter?
The point where the three altitudes of a triangle intersect.
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What are parallel lines?
2 lines on the same plane that never intersect.
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What are perpendicular lines?
2 lines that intersect to form a right angle.
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What is a perpendicular bisector?
A line that intersects another line segment at its midpoint.
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What is an incenter?
Thw point where the 3 angle bisectors of a triangle intersect.
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What is an inscribed circle?
The circle centered at the incenter of a triangle that fits in the triangle perfectly.
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What is the circumcenter?
The point where 3 perpendicular bisectors of a triangle intersect.
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What is a circumscribed circle?
The circle centered at the circumcenter of a triangle that fits outside the triangle perfectly.
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What is a conditional statement?
A sentence in if(hypothesis,p) then(conclusion) form that can be viewed as true or false.
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What is a counterexample?
A reason why a statement is false.
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What is a converse?
If p then q becomes if q then p.
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What is the inverse?
If p then q becomes if not p then not q.
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What is the contrapositive?
If p then q becomes if not q then not p.
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What property is..
| If a=b then a+c=b+c?
Addition
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What property is....
| If a=b then a-c=b-c?
Subtraction
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What property is....
| If a=b then ac=bc
Multiplication
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What property is....
| If a=b then a/c=b/c if c is not equal to zero?
Division
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What property is
| a(b-c)?
Distributive
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What property is...
| a=a?
Reflexive
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What property is.....
| if a=b then b=a
Symmetric
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What property is.....
| If a=b and b=c then a=c?
Transative
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What property is....
| if a=b then a and b can be used interchangably?
Substitution
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What are the three properties of congruence?
1. Reflexive
2. Symmetric
3. Transative
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What is deductive reasoning?
Using logic, facts, and general principles to reach an indisputable conclusion.
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What is a proof?
A step by step process using deductive reasoning to show why something must be true.
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What are acceptable reasons in proofs?
1. Given
2. Definitions
3. Properties
4. Postulates
5. Previously proven theorems
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What are vertical angles
Pairs of angles formed by intersecting lines that are not adjacent.
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What is the vertical angles theorem?(VAT)
If angles are vertical, they are congruent.
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What is the overlapping angles theorem?(OST)
If AB=CD the AC=CD. If two congruent segments have the same overlapping segment, then the two larger overlapping segments are congruent.
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What is the overlapping angles theorem?(OAT)
If AVB=CVD the AVC=BVD. If two congruent angles share the same overlapping angles, then the two larger overlapping angles are congruent.
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What is a transversal?
A line that intersects two coplanar lines at different points.
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What are interior angles?
Angles formed by a transversal that are "between" the coplanar lines.
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What are exterior angles?
Angles formed by a transversal that are outside the coplanar lines.
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What are corresponding angles?
Pairs of angles formed by a transversal that:
1. have different vertices
2. One is interior, one is exterior
3. On the same side of the transversal
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What are alternate interior angles?
Pairs of angles formed by a transversal that:
1. Have different vertices
2. Both are interior angles
3. Not on the same side of the transversal
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What are same side interior angles?
Pairs of angles formes by a transversal that:
1. Have different vertices
2. Are interior angles
3. Are on the same side of a transversal
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What are alternate exterior angles?
Pairs of angles formed by a transversal that:
1. Have different vertices
2. Both are exterior angles
3. On different sides of the transversal
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What is the corresponding angles postulate?(CAP)
If a transversal cuts two lines that the corresponding angles are congruent, then the lines are parallel.
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What is the alternate interior angles theorem?(AIAT)
If a transversal cuts the two lines so that the alternate interior angles are congruent, then the line is parallel.
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What is the same-side interior angles theorem?(SSIAT)
If a transversal cuts two lines so that the same-side interior angles are supplementary, then the lines are parallel.
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What is the alternate exterior angles theorem?(AEAT)
If a transversal cuts two lines so that the alternate exterior angles are congruent, then the lines are parallel.
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What is the converse of the angles postulate?(CCAP)
If a transversal cuts two parallel lines, then the corresponding angles are congruent.
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What is the converse of the alternate interior angles theroem?(CAIAT)
If a transversal cuts two parallel lines, then the alternate interior angle pairs are congruent.
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What is the converse of the same-side interior angles theorem?
If a tranversal cuts two parallel lines, then the same side interior angle pairs are supplementary.
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What is the converse of the alternate exterior angles theorem?
If a transversal cuts two parallel lines, then the alternate exterior angle pairs are congruent.
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What are remote interior angles?
In a triangle, the interior angles that are not adjacent to adjacent to a given exterior angle.
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What is the triangle exterior angles theorem?
In any triangle, the measure from an exterior angle is equal to the sum of the measures of its remote interior angles.
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What is the polygon exterior angles theorem?
In any polygon, the sum of the measures of a set of exterior angles in 360.
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What is the parallel postulate?
Given any line and a point not on the line, there is a line parallel to the given line through the given point.
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What is a polygon?
A connected set of at least three coplanar line segments such that each segment only intersects two others, one at each midpoint.
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What is a triangle?
A three sided polygon.
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What are interior angles of polygons?
Angles inside a polygon which are formed by two adjacent sides of the polygon.
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What are exterior angles of polygons?
An angle outside a polygon which is formed by extending the side of the polygon.
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How are the angle of depression and angle of elevation related?
They are congruent to each other.
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What is the definition of similar polygons?
Two polygons are similar if one is a dilation of the other.
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What are the criteria for polygons to be congruent?
Two polygons are similar if and only if there is a correspondance such that:
1. Matching sides have to have the same ratio/scale factor
2. Matching angles are congruent
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What is the center of a regular polygon?
The center of its circumscribed circle.
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What is the apothem?
A line segment going from the center of a regular polygon perpendicular to a side.
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What is the definition of a circle?
A set of points equidistant from a given centerpoint.
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What is a tangent line of a circle?
A line intersecting the circle exactly one time.
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What is a point of tangency?
The point where a tangent line intersects a circle.
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What is a radius?
A segment going from the center of a circle to a point on the circle.
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What are congruent circles?
2 circles with congruent radii.
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What are concentric circles?
Circles with the same centerpoint.
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What is a chord?
A line segment with both endpoints on the circle.
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What is diameter?
A chord going through the center of a circle.
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What is a secant line?
A line intersecting a circle twice.
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What is a central angle?
An angle whos vertex is at the center of a circle.
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What is an inscribed angle?
An angle inside of a circle whose vertex is on the circle.
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What is an arc?
Part of a circle.
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What is a major arc?
An arc that is more han half of a circle.
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What is a minor arc?
An arc that is less than half of a circle.
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What is a semicircle?
Half of a circle.
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What is the chord-chord power theorem?
If two chords of a circle intersect inside the circle, then the product of the measures of the segments is equal to the product of the measures of the segments of the other chord.
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What is the secant-secant power theorem?
If two secant segments are drawn from a point outside a circle, then the product of the measures of one entire secant segment with its outside oart is equal to the product of the other secant segment with its outside part.
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What are the pyrhagorean triples?
3-4-5
5-12-13
8-15-17
7-24-25
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What is formed if you draw a radius from the center of a circle to the point of tangency?
Two 90 degree angles are formed.
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Tangent segments to a circle from a point outside the circle are....?
Congruent.
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What is surface area?
The combined area of all face or sides of a 3-d figure.
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What volume and its formula?
V=Bh
Volume is how mucn capacity a 3-d object has inside.
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What is Cavalieri's principle?
Volume doesnt change based of how a figure is "stacked"
Example: Stack of pennies
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What is the formula for volume of a pyramid or cone?
V=1/3•Bh
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What is the formula for surface area of a cylinder?
2•pi•r(squared)+2•pi•r•h
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What is the formula for volume of a sphere?
4/3•pi•r(CUBED)
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What is the formula for surface area of a sphere?
4•pi•r(squared)
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What is correspondence?
A way to pair two points between two polygons.
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What is the polygon congruence postulate?(PCP)
Two polygons are congruent if and only if there is a correspondence between them such that:
1. All pairs of corresponding sides are congruent
2. All pairs of corresponding angles are congruent.
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What is the triangle inequality theorem?
For a triangle to be formed, the sum of the legs of the two sides must be greater than the 3rd for all
possible arrangements.
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What is a parallelogram?
A quadrilateral that has two pairs of parallel sides.
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What is a rectangle?
A quadrilateral with four right angles.
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What is a rhombus?
A quadrilateral with four congruent sides.
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What is a square?
A quadrilateral with four right angles and four congruent sides.
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What is a kite?
A quadrilateral with two pairs of congruent, adjacent, sides and its opposite sides are not congruent.
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What is a transformation?
The process of moving a figure in a plain.
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What is a preimage?
An image before it's moved.
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What is an image?
An image after it's been moved.
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What is a rigid transformation?
A transformation that preserves the size and shape of a figure.
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What is an isosceles triangle?
A triangle with at least two congruent sides.
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What is an equilateral triangle?
A triangle with three congruent sides.
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What is an equilateral polygon?
A polygon with all sides congruent.
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What is an equiangular polygon?
A polygon with all angles congruent.
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What is a quadrilateral?
A four sided polygon.
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What js a trapezoid?
A quadrilateral with EXACTLY one pair of parallel sides.
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What does concurrent mean?
Multiple lines intersect at the same point.
