SOLUTION: hi tutor! may you please help me with this complicated question. I already saw an answer posted to someone else's same question, but i dont think its right. can someone else help m

Question 176021This question is from textbook Geometry
: hi tutor! may you please help me with this complicated question. I already saw an answer posted to someone else's same question, but i dont think its right. can someone else help me pease with this one, i would rather have a different answer than the other one please.Thanks for the effort. i appreciate all your help.
Given: segment MP is congruent to segment QS. Segment NP is congruent to segment QR.
Prove: Segment MN is conruent to segment RS.
M is on the top left, P is on the top right, Q is on the bottom left, S is on the bottom right, N is between M and P while R is between Q and S.Thanks again. This question is from textbook Geometry

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Is this what the figure looks like:
Photobucket

Note: points N and R are not necessarily the midpoints

Here's a two column proof

Statement	Reason
1. Segment MP = Segment QS	Given
2. Segment NP = Segment QR	Given
3. MN + NP = MP	Segment Addition Postulate
4. QR + RS = QS	Segment Addition Postulate
5. NP + RS = QS	Substitution (see statement 2)
6. MN + NP = NP + RS	Substitution (see statement 1)
7. MN = RS	Addition Property of Equality

Note: In statement 1, it is given that MP = QS. Since MP = MN + NP and QS = NP + RS, I did a substitution and plugged in these expressions into MP = QS to get MN + NP = NP + RS.

RELATED QUESTIONS
hi tutor! may you please help me with this complicated question. I already saw an answer... (answered by user_dude2008)

hi tutor! may you please help me with this complicated question. I already saw an answer... (answered by Edwin McCravy)

hi tutor! may you please help me with this complicated question. I already saw an answer... (answered by solver91311)

Simplify √-98 √-50 I asked this same question yesterday and got an answer. (answered by scott8148)

May I have someone else help me with this question. The last tutor only said "Use your... (answered by Boreal,josgarithmetic,rapture)

Please help me with this: I've asked this same question the first time, but no tutor (answered by wilft1)

Twenty minutes after Melissa�s older sister left home for band practice, Melissa saw... (answered by josmiceli)

Hi tutor, please help me with this question in geometry. I don't understand when to use... (answered by KMST)

I notice that this question has already been asked but I am still having a hard time... (answered by Maggy)