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To indicate that angles are congruent, matching angle marks such as arcs or hash marks are typically used. For angles formed by lines AB and CD, you would place the same number of arcs or hash marks in each angle that you want to show as congruent. For example, if angles ∠1 and ∠2 are congruent, you might place one arc in both angles to signify their equality.
Rigid transformations, such as translations, reflections, and rotations, preserve the length, angle measures, and parallelism of geometric figures. By applying a combination of these transformations to two given figures, if the transformed figures coincide, then the original figures are congruent. This is because if two figures can be superimposed perfectly using rigid transformations, then their corresponding sides and angles have the same measures, establishing congruency.
It depends on what is given.In general, one half of the bisected angle is proven to congruent to the other half. By the Definition of an Angle Bisector, the bisected angle can be proven bisected.---- To show that two angles are congruent:One way to prove the two angles congruent is to show that their measures are equal. This can be done if there are numbers on the diagram. Use the Protractor Postulate or the Angle Addition Postulate to find the smaller angles' measures, if they are not directly marked. Then use the Definition of Congruent Angles to prove them congruent.Given that the smaller angles correspond on a congruent or similar pair of figures in that plane and form an angle bisector, the Corresponding Parts of Congruent Figures Postulate or Corresponding Parts of Simlar Figures Postulate may be used.
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The term congruent is used in comparing two geometrical figures, it does not fit in this context. The angles of a regular polygon are equal.