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kamalakarthi
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Hi, In this below question, Does each line segment means all the individual sides of the parallelogram.
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Yes, you're supposed to assume that every side of each quadrilateral is of length 4. So each is a rhombus (a parallelogram with four equal sides).
Not sure if you wanted a solution, so stop reading now if you want to do the problem on your own, but the angles in each parallelogram must be 60,120,60,120, and if you divide one of the parallelograms along the diagonal, through the 120 degree angles, you'll just be dividing it into two equilateral triangles (because all the angles will be 60). So the diagram is really just six equilateral triangles with sides of length 4.
Not sure if you wanted a solution, so stop reading now if you want to do the problem on your own, but the angles in each parallelogram must be 60,120,60,120, and if you divide one of the parallelograms along the diagonal, through the 120 degree angles, you'll just be dividing it into two equilateral triangles (because all the angles will be 60). So the diagram is really just six equilateral triangles with sides of length 4.
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It isn't worded properly, but yeah, that's the idea: each of the three diamonds is a rhombus with side lengths of 4.
