Hi Elite097,
It's possible that the original wording of the question has been tweaked over the years, but the detail of having the sides of the glass and the sides of the table must be parallel is ultimately irrelevant (as you can find the correct answer by TESTing VALUES). That having been said, the original author (when originally creating the question all those years ago) might have been trying to 'eliminate' the option that you could lay the glass diagonally over the table and still completely cover it.
For example, with a table that is 36 inches by 60 inches, if you place a piece of glass that is 59 inches by 59 inches - with the corresponding sides parallel - the glass will NOT completely cover the table (the glass would be just a little short along the 60-inch axis). However, if you rotate the glass a bit (meaning that the sides would NOT be parallel with the sides of the table), then the glass WOULD completely cover the table.
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Rich
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