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Can you prove triangle BAC is similar to triangle DFE ? Justify your answer.

Can you prove triangle BAC is similar to triangle DFE ? Justify your answer.-example-1
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you can use side-angle-side postulate 
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Answer:

By AA property of similarity, triangles BAC and DFE are similar.

Explanation:

Given information: AC║FE and AB║FD.

If a transversal line intersect two parallel lines, then the corresponding angles are equal.

In triangle BAC and triangle DFE


\angle ABC=\angle FDE (corresponding angles)


\angle ACB=\angle FED (corresponding angles)

Two corresponding angles of triangles are equal. So, by AA property of similarity both triangles BAC and DFE are similar.


\triangle BAC\sim \triangle DFE

Hence proved.

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