SOLUTION: Given: ADEC is an Isosceles Trapezoid Prove: ABC is an Isosceles Triangle

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Question 400735: Given: ADEC is an Isosceles Trapezoid
Prove: ABC is an Isosceles Triangle

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) About Me  (Show Source):
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Draw DF and EG ⊥ AC



DF ⊥ AC            (drawn that way)

EG ⊥ AC            (drawn that way)

DF ∥ EG             lines perpendicular to the same line are parallel

DE ∥ FG             bases of a trapezoid are parallel 

FDEG is a parallelogram   (both pairs of opposite sides parallel)

DF ≅ EG             Opposite sides of a parallelogram   

DA ≅ EC             legs of isosceles trapezoid

ᐃADF and ᐃCEG are right triangles  (DF and EG ∥ AC)

ᐃADF ≅ ᐃCEG        hypotenuse-leg theorem

∠A ≅ ∠C         corresponding parts of congruent triangles ADF and CEG

ᐃABC is isosceles   base angles congruent.   

Edwin