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The quadrilateral formed by joining the midpoints of the sides of a quadrilateral ABCD, taken in order, is a rectangle, if
(a) ABCD is a Parallelogram
(b) ABCD is rectangle
(c) diagonals of ABCD are equal
(d) diagonals of ABCD are perpendicular to each other.

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Solution

Since,

The quadrilateral formed by joining the mid-points of the sides of a parallelogram is parallelogram ,

The quadrilateral formed by joining the mid-points of the sides of a rectangle is rhombus,

​The quadrilateral formed by joining the mid-points of the sides of a quadrilateral with diagonals equal is rhombus, and

​The quadrilateral formed by joining the mid-points of the sides of a quadrilateral with diagonals perpendicular to each other is rectangle.

Hence, the correct option is (d).

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