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Given: AC BD and AC and BD bisect each other.
Prove: BE EC

Given: AC BD and AC and BD bisect each other. Prove: BE EC-example-1
User Sergiy Sokolenko
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1)
\overline{AC} \cong \overline{BD} and
\overline{AC} and
\overline{BD} bisect each other (given)

2)
ABCD is a parallelogram (a quadrilateral with diagonals that bisect each other is a parallelogram)

3)
ABCD is a rhombus (a parallelgoram with congruent diagonals is a rhombus)

4)
\overline{BE} \cong \overline{EC} (halves of congruent segments are congruent)

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