Question

What are at least 2 characteristics of a rhombus?

Answer 1

A rhombus is one of the quadrilaterals.

It has all the properties of a parallelogram and a kite, with additional properties given below.

Explanation:

A good way of giving the properties or characteristics of geometrical shapes is to look at:

• the sides (equal and parallel)
• the angles (equal, `90°`)
• the diagonals (equal, bisected, perpendicular)
• the symmetry (line or rotational)

In a `color(blue)"rhombus"`

`color(blue)"All the sides are equal."`
`color(blue)"The opposite sides are parallel"`

`color(blue)"The sum of the interior angles is 360°"`
`color(blue)"The opposite angles are equal"`

`color(blue)"The diagonals bisect each other at 90°"`
`color(blue)"The diagonals bisect the angles at the vertices"`

`color(blue)"there are 2 lines of symmetry"`
`color(blue)"it has rotational symmetry of order 2"`