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title: "Parallel and Perpendicular"
description: "Learning video: In a rectangle, the top side is parallel to the bottom side. How many pairs of parallel sides does a rectangle have?"
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# Parallel and Perpendicular

Learning video 60 · Geometry · Grade 4 · 0:28

## Read the story

Parallel lines are the same distance apart everywhere. They never meet.

Perpendicular lines meet at a right angle.

In a rectangle, the top side is parallel to the bottom side.

**How many pairs of parallel sides does a rectangle have?**

## Answer and working

Correct! 2 pairs: top and bottom, left and right.