In “Quartic Coincidences and the Singular Value Decomposition” by Clifford and Lachance, Mathematics Magazine, December, 2013, it was shown that if there is a midpoint ellipse(an ellipse inscribed in a quadrilateral, , which is tangent at the midpoints of all four sides of ), then must be a parallelogram. We strengthen this result by showing that if is not a parallelogram, then there is no ellipse inscribed in which is tangent at the midpoint of three sides of . Second, the only quadrilaterals which have inscribed ellipses tangent at the midpoint of even two sides of are trapezoids or what we call a midpoint diagonal quadrilateral(the intersection point of the diagonals of coincides with the midpoint of at least one of the diagonals of ).

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