Is a square a rectangle or a rectangle a square?


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Square A square and a rectangle are two different shapes.

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A square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square.

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A square is both a square and a rectangle, but a rectangle is not always a square.

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Neither, a rectangle and a square are both polygons but the only similarity between them are all angles equal 90 degree

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A 'shape' is characterized by it's sides. You could squash a rectangle into a square and stretch a square into a rectangle.

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EVERY square is a rectangle since the angles are right angles. So also some rectangles are squares--namely, the squares are!

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A rectangle is a a parallelogram having four right angles, therefore, a square is a rectangle. ChaCha on!

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