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A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.
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Explanation: See solution.
A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. Let's illustrate a translation of GH to G'H'.
Note that if we connect G with G' and H with H', these segments are parallel. This is because the translation of GH to G'H' moves the endpoints the same number of units in the vertical and horizontal directions. In other words, the lines have the same slope and thus they are parallel.
We can conclude that the resulting quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
We see above that we do not obtain a quadrilateral by performing a translation parallel to the segment