SOLUTION: Can anyone please help me with this, I have no idea what to do here and I cant find anything on it anywhere. the question is, "Given that triangle ABC is congruent to triangle XYZ,

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Question 759103: Can anyone please help me with this, I have no idea what to do here and I cant find anything on it anywhere. the question is, "Given that triangle ABC is congruent to triangle XYZ, AB=38, YZ=28, XY=5X+8. Find the value of x."
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Can anyone please help me with this, I have no idea what to do here and I cant find anything on it anywhere. the question is, "Given that triangle ABC is congruent to triangle XYZ, AB=38, YZ=28, XY=5X+8. Find the value of x."
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Can you tell by looking at ABC and XYZ which sides and which angles are
correspondiing?
If so XY corresponds to ??
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Equate 5x+8 with the value of that corresponding side.
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Cheers,
Stan H.