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Identify the geometrical figure as a quadrilateral, a parallelogram, a kite, a rhombus, a rectangle, a trapezium, a square, an isosceles trapezium.

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Solution

The given geometrical figure is a quadrilateral because it has only four sides and other specification is not given. A quadrilateral is a simple closed polygon bounded by four line segments.

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