The carpenter’s problem
Two strips and a thread
One strip is 8 centimetres. How long is the other, where do they cross, and at what angle?
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Quadrilaterals · Class 8 Mathematics · Ganita Prakash
English 3 topics 105 leveled MCQs 51 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Congruence settles the first question
The diagonals come out equal
Two triangles sharing a side have equal opposite sides, two right angles and that common side.
What bisect means
They cross at the middle
An angle chase at the crossing gives two equal angles, and angle-angle-side gives congruence.
What a parallelogram is
Parallel sides without right angles
Draw two pairs of parallel lines set at some angle other than a right angle.
Where the rectangle fits
Every rectangle is one
A rectangle has parallel opposite sides, so it meets the definition.
The transversal does the work
Neighbouring angles make 180
One side cuts across the parallel pair as a transversal.
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1
Rectangles, squares and what a definition owes you
A carpenter joining two strips of wood needs to know what makes a rectangle. Chasing that question gives three different definitions of the same shape, and shows why a measured pattern is only a guess until it is proved.
- A rectangle can be defined as a quadrilateral with four right angles.
- It can equally be defined by diagonals that are equal and bisect each other.
- Bisecting means cutting into two equal parts.
~35 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Parallelograms and rhombuses
Keep the parallel opposite sides of a rectangle but drop its right angles, and you have a parallelogram. Keep equal sides instead and you have a rhombus. Each loses one property of the rectangle and keeps the rest.
- A parallelogram is a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are parallel.
- Its adjacent angles add to 180 degrees.
- Its opposite angles are equal.
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3
Kites, trapeziums and building from triangles
Two copies of one triangle can be joined along a side in two ways, and the two ways give two different quadrilaterals. That is where kites come from. Relaxing the parallel condition to a single pair gives the trapezium.
- Equal diagonals crossing at right angles at their midpoints give a square.
- Unequal diagonals crossing so at their midpoints give a rhombus.
- Flipping a triangle across the shared side gives a kite.
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105 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A carpenter joins two wooden strips so that a thread round their four endpoints makes a quadrilateral. In that quadrilateral the strips are the
Beginner
A sides
B angle bisectors
C diagonals
D perpendicular bisectors of the sides
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diagonals
The endpoints are the corners, so each strip joins opposite corners.
One strip is 8 centimetres long, and the thread is to make a rectangle. The other strip must be
Beginner
A 4 centimetres
B 16 centimetres
C 8 centimetres
D any length at all
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8 centimetres
The diagonals of a rectangle are equal, so the second strip matches the first.
The congruence condition used to show that the diagonals of a rectangle are equal is
Intermediate
A side-side-side
B side-angle-side
C angle-angle-side
D angle-side-angle
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side-angle-side
Two equal sides with the right angle between them give the congruence.
Two diagonals cross at their midpoints. In the language of this chapter, the diagonals
Beginner
A bisect each other
B are perpendicular
C are equal
D are parallel
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bisect each other
Bisecting means cutting into two equal parts.
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