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Circle: Huh! Four-sided shapes have no manners.

Rectangle: Why do both of you keep arguing all the time? You don’t ever listen

to me. I am the most powerful of you all.

Square: (making fun) Sure, Mr Rectangle. You are broad but you have only

as many sides as me.

Rectangle: I am not just broad, I am stronger too.

Circle: (with pride) Narrow or broad, I am different from all of you. I am
not dependent on lines, to form myself. I am completely round.

And, nobody can catch me, I can slip out of anybody’s hands easily.

Triangle: Well, nobody is as sleek and pretty as I am.

Shreya is hearing the arguments in disbelief. She musters courage to talk to the
shapes.

Shreya: Hello! How did you come out of my Mathematics book?
Rectangle: We were feeling uneasy inside. Besides, we needed more space to

settle our dispute.

Shreya: (confused) What dispute?

Square: Didn’t you hear us? We are arguing which is the best shape.

Shreya: What! How does that matter?

Rectangle: It does. We request you to be the judge.

Circle: There is no doubt, I am the best.

Square: She doesn’t have to think much. I am the best shape.

Triangle: We will see. Let Shreya decide.

All shapes: (together) Yes, tell us which is the best shape!
Shreya: (confused) How can I tell this?

Rectangle: You have to do this, otherwise we will not go back inside the book.

Shreya: (pondering over the problem) Alright! I have a solution. The shape
without which geometry is incomplete is the best one.

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