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Question
State, 'true' or 'false'
The diagonals of a quadrilateral bisect each other.
Options
True
False
Solution
False
This is not true for any random quadrilateral. Observe the quadrilateral shown below.
Clearly the diagonals of the given quadrilateral do not bisect each other. However, if the quadrilateral was a special quadrilateral like a parallelogram, this would hold true.
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