Mei has a large triangular stone that she wants to divide into four smaller triangular stepping stones in a pathway. Explain why cutting along each midsegment creates four congruent stepping stones.

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highschoolmom2010 · Answer

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jim_thompson5910 · Answer

it's not perfect, but it'll do

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jim_thompson5910 · Answer

anyways, each midsegment is parallel to the side it's not touching

so this segment here

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is parallel to this side

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jim_thompson5910 · Answer

what this means is that these two angles are corresponding angles

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so they are congruent angles