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Nathan drew a picture of a rectangle. Describe anyparallel, perpendicular, or congruent sides of hispicture.

Nathan drew a picture of a rectangle. Describe anyparallel, perpendicular, or congruent-example-1
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Lets draw a rectangle:

we can see that horizontal lines are parallel, they both are congruent and measure b units. We can also note that vertical lines are parallel and measure a units. Lines "a" and "b" are perpendicular each other:

since each interior angle measure 90 degrees.

In summary, we can draw the following picture

Nathan drew a picture of a rectangle. Describe anyparallel, perpendicular, or congruent-example-1
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Nathan drew a picture of a rectangle. Describe anyparallel, perpendicular, or congruent-example-3
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