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Question 1186350: Could you please help me write an INDIRECT PROOF for this problem?
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Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by
greenestamps(13198)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


It's rather bizarre to ask for an indirect proof, since a direct proof is so easy.

But if that's what you need, we can do it that way.
BC and DC are not congruent                assumption
AB is congruent to AD                      given
angle ABC is congruent to angle DAC        given
angle B is congruent to angle D            angles opposite congruent sides are congruent
triangle BAC is congruent to triangle DAC  Angle-Side-Angle
BC is congruent to DC                      corresponding parts of congruent triangles

That contradicts the assumption, so the assumption is false; BC is congruent to DC


Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Assume BC is not congruent to DC.

1. AB ≅ AD        | given
2. ∠BAC ≅ ∠DAC    | given
3. AC ≅ AC        | reflexive property of equality
4.  △BAC ≅ △DAC  | Side-angle-side  (SAS)
5.  BC ≅ DC       | Corresponding parts of congruent triangles. (CPCT)  
6.  BC ≅ DC       | 5 contradicts the assumption that BC is not congruent to DC.

Notice: the theorem was not proved at step 5, because 5 was deduced under the
assumption BC is not congruent to DC.  The theorem was not proved there.  It was
only proved by the statement 6 that the assumption leads to a contradiction.

Edwin

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