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What other information do you need to know in order for these triangles to be congruent based on HL?

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The diagram shows that FG = IJ are congruent segments due to the double tickmarks. These are the hypotenuses of the right triangles.

So that takes care of the "H" in "HL".

The L stands for "leg", so we need to have a congruent pair of corresponding legs.

Due to the orientation of the triangles, it's not clear how the corresponding legs match up, but if any of the following is true

  • EF = IK
  • EF = JK
  • EG = IK
  • EG = JK

then we'd have enough to use HL.

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