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Diagonals of a Parallelogram

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The diagonals of a parallelogram are not perpendicular. Is it a rhombus? Why or why pot ?

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By definition of a rhombus, its diagonals bisect each other at right angle.

So, the given parallelogram is not a rhombus.

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