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When a diagonal is drawn in a rectangle, what is true of the areas of the two triangles into which it divides the rectangle?

They are called?

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Answer:

They would be Equal

Explanation:

if we split a rectangle into two triangles it would be the same triangle just flipped!

User Jpavlov
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Each diagonal divides the rectangle into two congruent right triangles. Because the triangles are congruent, they have the same area.
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