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Assume both triangles are congruent. Finish the congruence statement below.

Assume both triangles are congruent. Finish the congruence statement below.-example-1
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ΔRQP

Explanation:

When making a statement of congruence with two triangles, make sure to say it in the right order in which the letters go in.

To affirm this, you have to find the corresponding angles/sides and go on from there in the correct order.

From this diagram, we can see triangle KLJ is congruent to the other triangle just by looking at the sides and angles.

We see that the letter K is on an angle, and that same angle is marked on the letter R in the other triangle. This way, we know that a certain set of sides or angles are congruent all depending on the number of markings there are.

Now we know that angles K and R correspond. The letter R will be the first letter when saying that the triangle R is in is congruent to triangle KLJ.

Let's find the other two letters, since "L" is the next letter in the first triangle, we will look at the corresponding angle for that.

Angle L is indicated with two markings now.. look at the other triangle and see where those same amount of markings are, that angle will be the angle that corresponds to L.

We can see that angle Q is the angle that corresponds to angle L, therefore we will put "Q" as our second letter when saying the triangle that letter Q is in is congruent to triangle KLJ.

Last but not least, we are left with J, now we obviously know that angle P corresponds with angle J since they are the only angles left.

Hence, we will use the letter "J" as our third letter.

Let's put it all together in the order that we've found them in:

ΔRQP will be the correct way of saying that triangle is congruent to triangle KLJ.

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