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Why are parallelograms always quadrilaterals, but quadrilaterals are only sometimes parallelograms?

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yes

Explanation:

User Oscar Wahltinez
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Explanation:

All the polygons that have four sides are quadrilateral.

Parallelogram is a special type of quadrilateral.

In parallelogram, opposite sides are equal and parallel and opposite angles are equal and the adjacent angles are supplementary.

So, parallelograms are always quadrilateral, as they have four sides

But quadrilateral are only sometimes as it doesn't always have the properties of parallelogram.

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