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1953 AHSME Problem 32

Each angle of a rectangle is trisected. The intersections of the pairs of trisectors adjacent to the same side always form:

\begin{array}{l} \textbf{(A)}\ \text{a square} \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \text{a rectangle} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \text{a parallelogram with unequal sides}\\ \textbf{(D)}\ \text{a rhombus}\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \text{a quadrilateral with no special properties} \end{array}


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