Dear teacher,
Please help me in solving the below questions . l am facing difficulty as l am stucking in the halfway of solution .
I would be highly thankful to you
Dear student,
Given: In a quadrilateral ABCD, P, Q, R and S are mid-points of the sides AB, BC, CD and DA, respectively.
To prove: PQRS is a parallelogram.
Construction: Join AC.
Proof:
In ACD,
As, R and S are mid-points of DC and DA, respectively.
So, by using the Mid-point theorem − The segment connecting the mid-points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and is half the length of the third side, we get
RSAC and RS = AC .....(1)
Similarly, in ABC, by using the mid-point theorem, we get
PQAC and PQ = AC .....(2)
Therefore, from (1) and (2), we get
PQRS and PQ = RS
But this is a pair of opposite sides of the quadrilateral PQRS.
Therefore, PQRS is a parallelogram.
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