Drawing Quadrilaterals
from the Diagonals
Move the points on the intersecting segments below
so that they form the vertices of different quadrilaterals.
Try to form the following:
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a parallelogram
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a kite
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a rhombus
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a trapezoid
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an isosceles trapezoid
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a square
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a rectangle
Which of this is impossible to form on the diagonals below?
Explain how you know it is impossible.
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