An Associate of Arts is an academic transfer degree designed for students who will ultimately be pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree at a four-year college/university that is not math or science oriented. Examples of this type of four-year degree are: Business, Liberal Arts, History, Speech, Music, Education, Criminal Justice, etc.
Quadrilaterals which have one pair of parallel sides are called trapezoids. Sides that are parallel are called bases of a trapezoid, and ones that are not parallel are called legs. Trapezoids whose legs are of equal length are called isosceles trapezoids. Diagonals of a isosceles trapezoids are congruent.
A trapezoid has two bases, each of which is one of the parallel sides. The other two sides that aren't parallel to each other are called the trapezoid's legs. Since only the bases are parallel and the legs are not, we can think of this scenario as two nonparallel transversals cutting across a pair of parallel lines.