Look at the quadrilateral in the diagram below.
What is the value of x if the quadrilateral ABCD is a parallelogram?
Look at the quadrilateral in the diagram below.
What is the value of x if the quadrilateral ABCD is a parallelogram?
To find the values of and for the parallelogram ABCD, we use the property that opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal.
1. Opposite sides AB and DC must be equal, therefore:
2. Opposite sides AD and BC must also be equal, therefore:
Thus, the values of the unknowns that make ABCD a parallelogram are and .
This corresponds to choice 1: .
x=15 , y=7