High School

Ted claims that the two shaded triangles must be congruent. Is Ted's claim correct?

Include all work and/or reasoning necessary to either prove the triangles congruent or to disprove Ted's claim.

Answer :

Ted's claim is correct - the two shaded triangles must be congruent.

We can prove this using the following reasoning:

The two triangles share the same base, segment BC.

The two triangles have the same height, as the height of a triangle is measured as a perpendicular line from the base to the opposite vertex, and the perpendicular line from B to segment AD is the same length as the perpendicular line from C to segment AE.

Therefore, the two triangles have the same area.

If two triangles have the same area and share a common side (in this case, segment BC), they must be congruent by the Side-Area-Side (SAS) congruence theorem.

Therefore, we can conclude that the two shaded triangles are congruent.

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