SOLUTION: proof of if one acute angle and the hypotenuse of two right angles are congruent. then the two right angles are congruent

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Question 980352: proof of if one acute angle and the hypotenuse of two right angles are congruent. then the two right angles are congruent
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Two right angles are congruent regardless of the congruence of the rest of the corresponding parts of the two triangles. Right angles are congruent by definition.

John

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