Rhombus
A rhombus is a geometric figure that lies in a plane. It is defined as a quadrilateral all of whose sides are congruent. It is a special type of parallelogram, and its properties (aside from those properties of parallelograms) include:
- Its diagonals divide the figure into 4 congruent triangles.
- Its diagonals are perpendicular bisectors of eachother.
- If all of a rhombus' angles are right angles, then the rhombus is a square.
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Proofs
This article would be greatly enhanced by these proofs:
Proof that a rhombus is a parallelogram
All sides of a rhombus are congruent, so opposite sides are congruent, which is one of the properties of a parallelogram.
Or, there is always the longer way:
In rhombus 
, all 4 sides are congruent (definition of a rhombus).
, 
, and 
.
By the SSS Postulate, 
.
Corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent, so 
and 
, which is one of the properties of a parallelogram (opposite angles are congruent).
Proof that the diagonals of a rhombus divide it into 4 congruent triangles
In rhombus , 
is the point at which the diagonals intersect.
Since the diagonals of a rhombus are bisectors of eachother, 
and 
.
Also, all sides are congruent.
By the SSS Postulate, the 4 triangles formed by the diagonals of a rhombus are congruent.
Proof that the diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular
Continuation of above proof:
Corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent, so all 4 angles (the ones in the middle) are congruent.
This leads to the fact that they are all equal to 
degrees, and the diagonals are perpendiclar to eachother.
Example Problems
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