Rhombus

Rhombus:

Introduction to Rhombus:

Let us learn about the properties of a Rhombus,its shape and also other basic features of a Rhombus.

Rhombus is quadrilaterals with both pairs of opposite sides are parallel and all the sides are having same length. Rhombus is also called as equilateral parallelogram.

The rhombus is also called as diamond and rhomb. A square is also a rhombus, because the square is a quadrilateral with all sides equal.

All the opposite sides of the rhombus is parallel and all the opposite angles are equal.

Properties of Rhombus:

• Opposite angles of the rhombus having equal measures.

• The diagonals of the rhombus intersect each other at right angles.

• Rhombus having two diagonals that are connecting opposite pairs of vertices.

• Rhombus is Symmetric along the diagonals

• Every Rhombus is parallelogram

• All the parallelograms are not a Rhombus

• Dual polygon of the rhombus is called as Rectangle.

Area and Perimeter of Rhombus:

Area of the Rhombus:

The area of the Rhombus is same as the area of the parallelogram .That is the area is the multiplication of base and height.

The formula for calculate the area is,

A=b * h

The base of the rhombus is the length of one of its sides and the height is the perpendicular distance between the opposite sides.

Perimeter of the Rhombus:

The perimeter of the rhombus is the total sum of its all the sides length. Generally the perimeter is sum of the length of the all sides. In the case of rhombus, all the sides are having equal length. So we can say that the perimeter is 4s, where s is length of the sides.

Altitude of the rhombus:

The perpendicular distance between the opposite side and the base of a rhombus is called as Altitude of the rhombus. The altitude also mentioned as the height.

Angles of a rhombus:

Sum of the adjacent sides of any rhombus are equal to 180 degree. That is adjacent angles of a rhombus are supplementary.

Hope you like the above example of Rhombus.Please leave your comments, if you have any doubts.