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Moving the shape up or down, and left or right but not turning it or changing its size.

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Q: What is translation mean when you are talking about congruent figures?
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What does it mean for two figures to be congruent?

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What does it mean when two figures are congruent?

Two figures are congruent when they have the exact same angles within them. However, one of the figures might be blown up or shrunk. (Just not Skewed/Stretched).for example: Ais congruent tobut isn't congruent toASince it's slanted (skewed).=== === == == == ==


What does conruent mean?

Did you mean "congruent"? Congruent means to be in harmony or agreement. In geometry is when figures have "identical in form; coinciding exactly when superimposed".


In geometry what does it mean if two figures are congruent?

They have the same shape and measurements


What does non congruent mean?

In geometry two figures are congruent if they have the same shape and size if they are non congruent they do not have the same shape and size two triangles are congruent if their corresponding sides are all equal in lengh and their corresponding angles are equal in size


What does con gruent mean?

"Congruent" means when two shapes or figures have the same size and shape, they are said to be congruent. In other words, their corresponding sides and angles are equal.


What does it mean to prove that two figures are congruent using rigid motions?

Given two sets of angles and the included side congruent, we seek a sequence of rigid motions that will map Δ_____onto Δ___ proving the triangles congruent.


What closed 4- sided figure has 4 right angles and 4 pairs of congruent sides?

I assume you mean 4 congruent sides or 2 pairs of congruent sides.. (There are no 4-sided figures with 8 sides.) A square.


If two figures are similar then are they also congruent?

No. Two figures are similar if they have same shape, and all the angles are equal; but they can have the sides of different sizes. I mean, similar figures may have different sizes, but must have the same shape.


What does congruency mean in mathematics?

The term is "congruence". Two figures are said to be congruent if you can convert one figure to the other using only rotations and translations - that is, the figures have the same size and shape.


Do cones belong in space figures?

if you mean ice-cream cones then i have no idea what you are talking about


What does congruent mean in math?

Same Shape The term congruent, in geometry, means exactly the same, when said about a geometrical figure; if two figures are congruent, they have sides of the same length, and also have the same angles connecting those sides; all measurements are the same.