{"id":290,"date":"2012-01-09T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","slug":"congruent-triangles-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/congruent-triangles-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Congruent Triangles: An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two figures are congruent if they have exactly the same size and shape. The congruent figures have congruent sides and angles. \u00a0The congruence between two sides and angles is shown by the symbol <a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/cong-symbol.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/cong-symbol.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two triangles ABC and XYZ shown below are congruent because their corresponding sides and angles are congruent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/cong-fig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-291\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/cong-fig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The table below shows the corresponding sides and corresponding angles that are congruent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Cong-fig-table.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-292\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Cong-fig-table.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ratio of lengths of two corresponding sides of congruent figures is always 1. Congruent figures have same area and perimeter. So the ratio of areas and volumes of two congruent figures is also 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two figures are congruent if they have exactly the same size and shape. The congruent figures have congruent sides and angles. \u00a0The congruence between two sides and angles is shown by the symbol . The two triangles ABC and XYZ shown below are congruent because their corresponding sides and angles are congruent. The table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[374,377,378,381,1372],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-algebra","tag-congruence","tag-congruentfigures","tag-congruentshapes","tag-congruenttriangles","tag-prealgebra"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}