Congruent triangles worksheet
Three matching parts prove two triangles congruent, but only in the right pattern: three sides, two sides with the angle between them, two angles with a side, or a hypotenuse and a leg of right triangles. Two sides and an angle not between them (SSA) proves nothing, and neither do three angles. In a congruence statement the letters line up: the first vertex matches the first.
Not quite the one you need? Same words, different skill:
- Similar Triangles (Geometry). AA, SSS, SAS, and the missing side.
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How to do these
Which postulate proves the triangles congruent, if any?
- Two sides are ticked in each triangle, and the marked angle sits between them.
- Side, included angle, side.
The answer is SAS.
Where students go wrong
Reading SSA as SAS. If the marked angle is not between the two marked sides, the pattern proves nothing.
Also called triangle congruence postulates, SSS SAS ASA AAS, hypotenuse leg, CPCTC or congruence statements.
What you can put on this worksheet
- SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL, or not enough
- Are the triangles congruent? If so, by which postulate? — two triangles with matching marks → ASA
- Corresponding parts from a congruence statement
- . What corresponds to ? →
- Corresponding parts written in x
- , and . Find . →
- What else is needed?
- Given and , what else is needed to prove by SAS? →
- Write the congruence statement
- The triangles are congruent. Complete the statement:
— two triangles with their corners named, labeled X, Y, Z, H, G, I → - Triangles that share a side or meet at a crossing
- Name the postulate that shows the triangles are congruent, if there is one. — triangle a b c with segment b d to the base, labeled M, J, K, L → HL
- Right triangles: HL, LL, HA, LA
- Give the rule (HL, LL, HA or LA) that proves these right triangles congruent. — two right triangles with marks → HA
- What else is needed, from a marked drawing (shared sides, crossings, right triangles)
- What else is needed to prove by ASA? — triangle a b c with segment b d to the base, labeled B, C, D, A →
- Matching parts when the triangles share a side
- . What corresponds to ? — triangle a b c with segment b d to the base, labeled X, W, Z, Y →