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Given: Quadrilateral PAST, TX = AX; TP || AS
Prove: Quadrilateral PAST is a parallelogram.

Given: Quadrilateral PAST, TX = AX; TP || AS Prove: Quadrilateral PAST is a parallelogram-example-1

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(Adding to the other person's answer)

For the 5th step reason, put this: A quadrilateral is a parallelogram if a pair of opposite sides are parallel and congruent.

It won't work to just say something like the def. of parallelograms.

User Victor Lam
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1) Quadrilateral PAST, TX=AX,
\overline{TP} \parallel\overline{AS} (given)

2)
\angle XPT \cong \angle XSA and
\angle XTP \cong \angle XAS (alternate interior angles theorem)

3)
\triangle TXP \cong \triangle AXS (AAS)

4)
\overline{TP} \cong \overline{AS} (CPCTC)

5) PAST is a parallelogram (a quadrilateral with two pairs of opposite congruent sides is a parallelogram)

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