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Chapter 1
Congruent Triangles
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DA.1
FC .3
DEAB .4
EFBC .5
DFAC .6
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EB .2
DEFABC
DEFINITION. Two triangles ABC and DEF
are said to be congruent if the following six conditions all
hold:
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SAS THEOREM (POSTULATE) If and ,
then .
DEAB,DA DFAC DEFABC
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If and ,
then .
EBDA ,DEFABC
DEAB
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Proof of ASA
Assume that in and and . Consider
now and . If we knew that they were congruent, then we would be done:
The two triangles would be congruent by SAS.
ABC DEFEB,DA DEAB
AC DF
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So we assume that they are not equal and is longer. Since is longer there is an interior point G on such that . But now and
AC AC
DFAG ABG DEF
,DA DEAB satisfy:
DFAG
and
DEFABG So, by SAS, .
AC
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EABG EABC
ABCABG
Hence , But , by hypothesis
ABG
ABC
But this is impossible: has to be smaller
ABC
DF
than because G is an interior point of
Hence,
This is a contradiction. ACour assumption that
is not congruent to must be False.
Therefore, DEFABC and the proof is concluded.
.
Comparing these two equations, we see that
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Let be any triangle
CB ACAB 1 .If
then
ACAB CB 2 .If then
ABC
Isosceles Triangle Theorem
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Proof. (1):
In this case we have these three Congruences , BC , CB
and CBBC
So Hence , ACAB
as corresponding part of congruent triangles.
by ASA.)!( ACBABC
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Proof. (2):
Now use the congruences,
,
,
And .
To conclude that by SAS.
So .
ACAB
ABAC AA
ACBABC CB
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SSS THEOREM
If and ,
then .
EFBC,DEAB DFAC DEFABC
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Assume in andABC
G
DEF
We now construct a point such that
DEAB EFBC DFAC
that
, and
EGBC FGCB and
By ASA, DEFGBC
.
.
To prove the theorem we will prove that
ABCGBC
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Construct GA
.
DEAB by assumption, Since and GBDE
as corresponding parts of congruent triangles, GBAB , by transitivity .
Hence BAG is an isosceles triangle.
So, BGABAG
.
we conclude that
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CAGCGACAG
By a similar line of reasoningisosceles triangle and
is an
Now consider the following relations: CAGBAG CGACAG BGACGA BAGBGA
Together , these imply that BAGBAG
This is impossible. Hence, G must coincide with A, EBGBC
and DEFABC by SAS.
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PROBLEM. To bisect an angle.
Solution. First, use your compass to construct
ACAB B and C such that .
Then draw an arc with center B, and arcwith center C, both with the same radius. Let D be their point of intersection.
ThenAD is the angle bisector.
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Since ,ADAD ,ACAB
and ,CDBD We may conclude that ACDABD by SSS.
Hence, CADBAD
.
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PROBLEM
Given angle and ray , construct an A BC
,
DBC Aangle that will be congruent to .
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Proof
Since ,BCAP ,BDAQ
,CDPQ We have BCDAPQ by SSS.
Hence DBCA .
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PROBLEM
Given a line and a point P not on . construct a line that passes through P
and is perpendicular to
.
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Proof Consider the two triangles and . PAQ
They must be congruent by SSS. From this
PBQ
we conclude that BPQAPQ Now, let C be the point of intersection of PQ
and AB and consider PAC and PBC
These two triangles have PC as a common
side, they have PBPA and they have
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congruent angles at P, as noted previously.
Hence PBCPAC So, PCBPCA But, 180PCBPCA
These two equations imply that 90PCA
and 90PCB ,as claimed .
.
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A B A B A B
P P
Q Q
Perpendicular Bisector of Segment
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The Vertical Angel Theorem
Let the lines and meet at point P, as shown in the figure. Then and
AB CDBPDAPC
.BPCAPD B
C
AD
P
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Proof
Clearly, and Hence,
So The case of is similar.
180 APDAPC.180 BPDAPD
.180
180
APDBPD
APDAPC
.BPDAPC BPCAPD
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THE EXTERIOR ANGLE THEOREM
In extend to a point D on ABC BC BC ,
forming the exterior angle ACD . Then
ACD A is greater than each of and B ,
the remote interior angles.
B
A
E
F
C D
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Proof
The first part of the proof will consist of
constructing the picture in figure .
First, let E be the midpoint of
B to E and
AC ; then connect
extend to a point F in the interior of
ACD such that EFBE Now consider the .
AEB CEFtriangles and .
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By construction, they have two of their
respective sides congruent. Moreover,
by the vertical angle theorem CEFAEB .
Hence CEFAEB .
This implies that AECF ECF. But
is less than ACD . So ACDA
as claimed The case of is similar. . B
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be a triangle in which ABC BCLet is longer
AC BA than
.
. Then .
or, the greater angle is opposite the greater side.
B CD
A
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Proof
We may find a point D on BC such that ACDC .
Since ADC is isosceles , CDACAD .By the exterior angle theorem ,BCDA and, clearly, .CADA
Comparing these three statements, the result follows.
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THEOREM
Let be a triangle in which ABC BA
Then ACBC .
or, the greater side is opposite the greater angle.
B C
A
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If the theorem was not true, then
ACBC BCAC either or
.
.
If ACBC ,then the triangle would be isosceles
and we would get the contradiction BA .
If ,then BCAC AB .
,which is also a contradiction.
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THEOREM
In any triangle, the sum of the lengths of any two sides is greater than the length of the third side. D
A
B C
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be any triangle. We will show that
BCACAB .BA
ACAD to a point D such that
. So ACABBD . now, since
ACD DCAD is isosceles,
so DCBD
. Therefore in BCD is a side opposite a larger angle BC
Extend the side
DCB
ABCLet
.
The theorem now follows .