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OpenStudy (ayyookyndall):

Geometry: Explain how proving two triangles congruent can help prove parts of the triangle congruent. **This is so confusing**

OpenStudy (anonymous):

marry me :DDDD

OpenStudy (ayyookyndall):

Me? Haha. What do you mean? @sourwing

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Hm, I'm not sure how they actually want you to answer this, but I'll try to help. Congruent triangles have the same lengths of sides. If the sides are equal, then the angles are equal. So, |dw:1415328524709:dw|are congruent triangles. Basically, triangle A is congruent to triangle B. they each have a side equal to 3, 5, and 7. If all sides of one triangle equal all the sides of another triangle, the angles will also be the same. I'm not sure how you should actually show that or write it...it kinds of answers itself.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

...does that make any sense at all? haha

OpenStudy (anonymous):

nope it doesn't make any sense at all :P

OpenStudy (ayyookyndall):

How would you word it than @sourwing

OpenStudy (anonymous):

idk lol

OpenStudy (ayyookyndall):

@nikato Do you know how to explain this?

OpenStudy (nikato):

if you prove twp troangles are congrunet, then that means they are equal which means they are the SAME trinalge. because they are the exact same triangle with maybe different labels for the angles/sides, the parts should also be congrunet

OpenStudy (nikato):

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OpenStudy (nikato):

for example, we have triangle ABC congrunet to DEF and you can see parts are equal A=D B=E,.... and see how the sides are equal like AB=DE,etc

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