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All of these triangles are congruent. Sometimes we can take one figure to another with a translation. Shade the triangles that are images of triangle under a translation.
For each of the following pairs of shapes, decide whether or not they are congruent. Explain your reasoning.
Take turns with your partner to decide whether Shape A is congruent to Shape B.
Your teacher will give you a set of four objects.
Compare your quadrilateral with your partner’s. Are they congruent? Explain how you know.
Repeat Steps 1 and 2, forming different quadrilaterals. If your first quadrilaterals were not congruent, can you build a pair that is? If your first quadrilaterals were congruent, can you build a pair that is not? Explain.
If two polygons have different sets of side lengths, they can’t be congruent.
For example, the figure on the left has side lengths 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1. The figure on the right has side lengths 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1. There is no way to make a correspondence between them where all corresponding sides have the same length.
If two polygons have the same side lengths, but not in the same order, the polygons can’t be congruent.
For example, rectangle can’t be congruent to quadrilateral . Even though they both have two sides of length 3 and two sides of length 5, they don’t correspond in the same order.
If two polygons have the same side lengths, in the same order, but different corresponding angles, the polygons can’t be congruent.
For example, parallelogram can’t be congruent to rectangle . Even though they have the same side lengths in the same order, the angles are different. All angles in are right angles. In , angles and are less than 90 degrees and angles and are more than 90 degrees.