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Can two shapes be congruent and not similar?
In short, no. Similar shapes are shapes in which all corresponding angles congruent regardless of the length of the sides. Congruent shapes have congruent corresponding angles and corresponding sides. In effect congruent shapes is a special condition of similar shapes.
What does it mean when two shapes are similar?
It is congruent
What does congruent mean if shapes are not the same size?
You can have two shapes - a small one and a big one - whose angles are congruent but the sides are not. In that case the shapes are not congruent but similar.
How can you tell both shapes are similar?
to prove two triangles are similar, get 2 angles congruent
What do you call two figures the have identical sides and shapes?
You would call them congruent or similar.
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