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A shape is randomly selected from the following quadrilaterals: parallelogram,
rhombus, rectangle, square, and trapezoid. What is the probability that it has four right angles, given that it has four congruent sides?

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So, it's hard to know if the sides on the parallelogram are equal or not, but both a rhombus and square have four congruent sides, but only a square has four right angles.

So 1/2 shapes fit both parameters. Therefore there is a 50% probability it has four right angles, given that it has four congruent sides.
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