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Metric relations in crossed trapezia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2018

Martin Josefsson
Martin Josefsson*
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Västergatan 25d, 285 37 Markaryd, Sweden e-mail: martin.markaryd@hotmail.com
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The trapezium (trapezoid in American English) is one of the seven most well-known quadrilaterals that is studied in school geometry. However, it is always assumed that it is convex. In this note we shall derive metric formulas for the most important quantities in crossed trapezia and compare them to the similar formulas for convex trapezia. The corresponding investigation regarding crossed cyclic quadrilaterals was conducted in [1]. Any crossed quadrilateral has a pair of opposite sides intersecting and both of its diagonals are outside of itself.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 102 , Issue 554 , July 2018 , pp. 264 - 269
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 2018 

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