SOLUTION: given: parallelogram ABCD, line DE is perpendicular to line AC, line BF is perpendicular to line AC prove: triangle ADE is congruent to triangle CBF

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Question 1013605: given: parallelogram ABCD, line DE is perpendicular to line AC, line BF is perpendicular to line AC
prove: triangle ADE is congruent to triangle CBF

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given: parallelogram ABCD, line DE is perpendicular to line AC, line BF is perpendicular to line AC
prove: triangle ADE is congruent to triangle CBF
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0. Make a sketch. It is intended not to replace the proof, but to help you follow the proof.

1. Consider these two triangles, DELTAADE and DELTACFB.
   Notice that these triangles are right-angled triangles.

2. Their sides AD and BC are congruent as the opposite sides of the parallelogram.

3. These triangles have congruent angles LDAE and LFCB, since these angles are alternate interior angles 
   at the parallel lines AD and BA and the transverse AC.

4. Since the right angled triangles DELTAADE and DELTACFB have the pair of congruent acute angles LDAE and LFCB, 
   they have the other pair of acute angles LADE and LCBF congruent too.

5. Now the triangles DELTAADE and DELTACFB are congruent according to the ASA-test of congruency of triangles.

Regarding parallel line, see the lesson Parallel lines in this site.

Regarding tests on congruency of triangles, see the lesson Congruence tests for triangles.