Lines of Symmetry Practice

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How many lines of symmetry does this parallelogram have?

parallelogram picture

Answer

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Select and check your answer...

A. 0
B. 2
C. 4
D. 6

Step by Step Solution

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    Step 1

    When we fold the parallelogram along this line, both sides of are not the identical.

    Therefore, this line is not a line of symmetry

    parallelogram folded along the vertical line parallelogram with vertical line
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    Step 2

    Again, we observe the same thing when this star is folded along this line.

    parallelogram with diagonal line parallelogram folded along the diagonal line
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    Step 3

    Same here...

    parallelogram with horizontal line parallelogram folded along the horizontal line
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    Step 4

    ...and here as well...

    parallelogram with diagonal line parallelogram folded along the diagonal line
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    Step 5

    From Step 1 to Step 4, we can see that this parallelogram has 0 line of symmetry.

    Clearly, the answer is A.

    parallelogram with all the lines
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