Identifying Types of Polygons- Definitions and/or pictures of three types of polygons**

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Identifying Types of Polygons -Definitions
and/or pictures of three types of polygons

• Quadrilaterals
• Triangles
• Regular Polygons

Sharon Sain July 27, 2002
Click here for an example of a nonpolygon
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Quadrilaterals

• A quadrilateral is a four sided polygon. Types
  of quadrilaterals include square, rhombus,
  rectangle, parallelogram, and trapezoid.

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Triangles
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Regular Polygons
Any type of polygon that has all sides congruent
and all angles congruent is called a regular
polygon. A square is a regular polygon.
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Its called a right triangle because it contains
an angle that measures 90 degrees.
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Circular objects such as this apple are not
considered to be polygons.