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Determining The Congruence of Triangles

Author: Graham Pardun

Cool Tricks For Figuring Out Whether Triangles Are Congruent

Two triangles are congruent if all their corresponding sides and all their corresponding angles have the same measure. The good news is, you don't actually need to know all the sides and all the angles to determine whether the triangles are congruent! Here are some tricks that will help you when the information you're given is limited -- tricks like SSS and SAS and some other cryptic three-letter mystery-abbreviations...