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Can someone please explain to me the difference between SAS and SSS in Geometry when dealing with triangle proofs?

ANTONII [103]

Hello from MrBillDoesMath!

Answer: SAS = side - angle -side congruence

SSS = side - side - side congruence

Discussion :

In Plane Geometry, identical triangles are said to be "congruent". There are several ways, depending upon the information you have, to prove 2 triangles are congruent.

In one approach ("SSS") if you can show that 2 triangles have identical side lengths, then the triangles are congruent. (A triangle has 3 sides, hence "SSS" -- 3 S's; 3 sides, get it?)

In another approach ("SAS") if you can show that 2 sides, and the angle included between those sides, in one triangle are identical to the sides and included angle in another triangle, then the triangles are congruent

It's easier to understand this with a picture or diagram than in words. Please review the SSS, SAS picture in your textbook

Regards, MrB

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4 years ago

The rate of change for a quadratic function is

Tema [17]

Answer:

a

Step-by-step explanation:

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3 years ago

A bluebird is sitting in her nest 10 feet up in a tree when she looks down and sees a cat and a worm. she decides to use math to

GarryVolchara [31]

Answer:

12.2 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

The key to this problem is trigonometry.

Imagine a right triangle. With a height, 10 ft (representing the tree's height), and a base of 7 ft (representing the horizontal distance to the worm).

Now the hypoteneuse length, or otherwise the distance from the worm is unknown.

So this is where we can use the pythagorean theorem.

$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$

$c$ here is the hypoteneuse length, and $a$ and $b$ are the other lengths of the triangle.

Since we know a and b we can solve for c.

But first we will square root both sides of the equation to get $c$ and not $c^2$ .

$\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c$

Now just plug in our values for a and b respectively. (It doesn't matter what number replaces a or b, just make sure you are replacing a and b with the 2 known values) Calculate.

$\sqrt{10^2 + 7^2} = \sqrt{100 + 49} = \sqrt{149} = 12.206....$