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In parallelogram PQRS, diagonals PR and QS intersect at point T.Which statement would prove PQRS is a rhombus?PT > QTPT QTPR QSSTQT

In parallelogram PQRS, diagonals PR and QS intersect at point T.Which statement would-example-1

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We can have more arguments to prove that PQRS is a rhombus, but, the argument that we will use here is:

Let's look at the first statement, we have


PT>QT

That's not correct, it would just prove that QR/2 > PS/2,


PR=QS

This statement implies


\begin{gathered} PR^2=QS^2 \\ \\ PS^2+SR^2=PQ^2+QR^2 \end{gathered}

We cannot conclude that


PS=SR=PQ=QR

The next statement is


PT=QT

A rhombus can have different diagonals, and in fact they have. Then let's go to the next one


ST=QT

That also not exactly says it's a rhombus, it's a pallelogram property.


\angle SPT=\angle QPT

By doing that we have that the diagonal bissects the angle

That implies that the angle b is also bissect.

The last statment is


\angle PTQ=\angle STR

That's literally the vertex angle, it's true always, not only in that case, therefore the only possible answer is


\angle SPT=\angle QPT

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