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1. Given any line, there are at least two points on the line. Call them A and B.

2. Given any line, there exists at least one point in the plane that is not on the line. Call that point C.

3. Given any two points (A and C and, then B and C) there exists a straight line joining them.

The point C is not on AB so AB and AC are distinct. Similarly, AB and BC are distinct so that there are three lines that meet, in pairs, at three vertices - and that is a triangle.

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Two congruent triangles.. To prove it, use the SSS Postulate.


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When trying to prove two triangles congruent, you can use SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL, and HA patterns. However, the pattern A S S doesn't work. Instead of spelling or saying this word in class, you can refer to it as "the donkey theorem". You can look at the pattern in the two triangles and say "these two triangles are not congruent because of the donkey theorem." You CANNOT prove triangles incongruent with 'the donkey theorem', nor can you prove them congruent. It's mostly sort of a joke, you could say, but it's never useful. The reason is that if the two triangles ARE congruent, then of course there will be an unincluded congruent angle as well as two congruent sides. The theorem doesn't do anything left, right, forward or backward. It's not even really a theorem. :P


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What information do you need to know in order to prove the triangles are congruent?

That the sides are equal in length and the interior angles are the same sizes

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