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Time: 2:43 PMDate: 8/6

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Your solution, attempt at solution.

If you are unable to attempt a solution, give a phrase-by-phrase interpretation of the problem along with a statement of what you do or do not understand about it. This response should be given, based on the work you did in completing the assignment, before you look at the given solution.

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Liberal Arts Mathematics II

Asst # 21

03-25-2003

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Question: `q Query 9.2.6 A square must be rhombus **** Is the statement true or false and why?

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Your solution:

- True. A rhombus is a parallelogram with each side parallel (but not angles are necessarily 90 degs to form a square) and each side equal length.

- So one could say that a square must be a rhombus because each pair of sides are parallel and of equal length.

- A square ABCD is a rhombus because sides AB, BC, CD, DA and angles DAB, ABC, BCD, CDA are all congruent.

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Given Solution:

GOOD STUDENT SOLUTION:

This statement is true.

A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides and a rhombus is a parallelogram with all sides having equal length. All sides of a square have equal length. If a square were not a rhombus then all sides would not be of equal length.

It is not true that a rhombus must be a square. The angles of a rhombus do not have to be right angles, while the angles of a square do. **

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Self-critique (if necessary):

- Redirected my thinking to the congruency of angles/length of sides rather than shape.

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Question: `q Query 9.2.10 Consider the statement: 'A parallelogram must be rectangle and a rectangle must be parallelogram '

Is the statement true or false and why?

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Your solution:

- False, because:

- A parallelogram is a quadrilateral that has two pairs of parallel sides, whose lengths are not necessarily congruent.

- A rectangle is a quadrilateral whose sides are all parallel but not necessarily of equal length that resembles the rules of a square, who must be of congruent 90 deg angles.

- If the angles of a rectangle are not all 90 degs, then it becomes a parallelogram.

- That said, all rectangles are parallelograms, but not all parallelograms are rectangles.

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Given Solution:

A parallelogram is a quadrilateral having two pairs of parallel sides.

A rectangle is a parallelogram which includes a pair of adjacent sides which meet at a right angle.

A rectangle is a parallelogram but a parallelogram is not necessarily a rectangle, so the statement is false.

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Self-critique (if necessary):

- Headache. I don’t know how many times I had to retype “parallelogram.” I pretty much got the point where I have it copied so I can just CTRL+V to keep from losing my mind.

More to the point, though, it is in fact concrete that a rectangle/square is a “fixed” shape so that if any of the angles diverge from 90 degs, it is no longer a square?

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Yes. The sides of rectangles meet at right angles. Squares are rectangles.

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Question: `q Query 9.2.18 A plane curve is defined by a rubber band with 4 loops.

Is the curve simple, closed, both or neither?

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Your solution:

- A simple curve is any line that can be drawn without lifting the pencil from the paper, but doesn’t pass through any point twice.

- A closed curve is a line that can be drawn so the start/end points will reach at the same point.

- It is closed, but not simple, as it passes over itself at three points.

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Given Solution:

The curve is closed: If you start from any point on the curve, and continue to follow the curve, you end up where you started.

The curve is not simple, but intersects itself ('crosses over' itself) at three points.

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Self-critique (if necessary):

- What would define a lemniscate as? I would say it would be both simple and closed, because it only crosses itself once, and may end at where the symbol began.

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If it crosses itself then it passes through the crossing point twice in the process of being drawn.

In that case it wouldn't be simple.

But it is closed.

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Question: `q Query 9.2.24 A curve consists of an ellipse.

Is the region inside the curve convex or not, and why?

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Given Solution:

The region inside is convex because the line segment connecting any two points is completely inside the figure.

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Question: `q Query 9.2.48 Consider the triangle ABC. Angle A is 30 degrees more than angle B, which in turn equals angle C

What are the measures of the three angles?

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Your solution:

- I let ‘x’ denote the approximate value of the measurement where A = 30 + x, B = x and C= x.

- Once I solve for x, I can definte B and C then added the given sum to get A.

- On a Euclidean plane, the three interior angles of a triangle will = 180, so

- (30 + x) + x + x = 180

- 3x + 30 = 180 => 3x = 150 = x = 50.

- Since B and C were the same value, we see that B = 50 and C = 50. A, however, is 30 degrees more than B, and B is 50. So 50 + 30 = 80.

- To check, the cumulative sum of all three interior angles is 180.

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Given Solution:

The figure is a triangle so

Angle A + Angle B + Angle C = 180 deg.

We are also told that angle A is 30 deg more than angle B, so

Angle A = Angle B + 30 deg

If x is the degree measure of B then angle A has measure x + 30 degrees and angle C has measure x degrees. So we have

x + x +30 deg + x = 180 deg

3x + 30 deg = 180 deg

3x = 150 deg

x = 50 deg

Angle B and Angle C are both equal to x, i.e., to 50 deg.

Angle A = 50 deg + 30 deg = 80 deg

To check, 80 + 50 + 50 = 180.

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Question: `q Query Add comments on any surprises or insights you experienced as a result of this assignment.

There were no really big surprises.

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