PRINCIPIA · THEOREM

Rhombus — diagonals perpendicularly bisect each other and bisect the angles

Dependencies: Isoceles: median, altitude, bisector coincide.

Statement

Let ABCDABCD be a rhombus — i.e. a quadrilateral with four equal sides (definition recorded in rhombus-four-sides-equal):

AB=BC=CD=DA.|AB| = |BC| = |CD| = |DA|.

Let the diagonals ACAC and BDBD meet at OO. Then:

  1. They are perpendicular: ACBDAC \perp BD;
  2. They bisect each other: OA=OC|OA| = |OC| and OB=OD|OB| = |OD|;
  3. They bisect the angles: ACAC bisects BAD\angle BAD and BCD\angle BCD; BDBD bisects ABC\angle ABC and ADC\angle ADC.

Rhombus ABCD, with diagonals AC, BD meeting at O, AC \perp BD and bisecting each other.

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