SOLUTION: Given: Parallelogram MATH with diagonal MT Prove: Mt bisects angle AmH and angle ATH

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Question 246805: Given: Parallelogram MATH with diagonal MT
Prove: Mt bisects angle AmH and angle ATH

Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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The problem as stated cannot be done. You cannot prove something that in general is not true. Now if MATH were actually a rhombus, that is another story altogether.

Here's the proof that your Prove statement is false in general.

Construct two parallelograms that are on top of one another: and such that is significantly greater than . Construct the diagonals and .

Since angle is congruent to but the alleged half-angles and are clearly of different measures, the two diagonals cannot be bisectors.


John