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  • - [Instructor] We're told, "Kason was curious

  • "if triangle ABC and triangle GFE were congruent,

  • "so he tried to map one figure onto the other

  • "using a rotation."

  • So let's see, this is triangle ABC, and it looks like,

  • at first, he rotates triangle ABC about point C,

  • to get it right over here, so that's what they're depicting

  • in this diagram.

  • And then they say, "Kason concluded:

  • "It is not possible to map triangle ABC

  • "onto triangle GFE using a sequence

  • "of rigid transformations,

  • "so the triangles are not congruent."

  • So what I want you to do is pause this video

  • and think about, is Kason correct

  • that they are not congruent, because you can not map

  • ABC, triangle ABC onto triangle GFE

  • with rigid transformations?

  • All right, so the way I think about it,

  • he was able to do the rotation

  • that got us right over here,

  • so it is rotation about point C,

  • and so this point right over here,

  • let me make sure I get this right,

  • this would've become B prime,

  • and then this is A prime,

  • and then C is mapped to itself, so C is equal to C prime.

  • But he's not done, there's another rigid transformation

  • he could do, and that would be a reflection

  • about the line FG.

  • So if he reflects about the line FG,

  • then this point is going to be mapped to point E,

  • just like that.

  • And then if you did that, you would see that there is

  • a series of rigid transformations

  • that maps triangle ABC onto triangle GFE.

  • So Kason is not correct, he missed one more transformation

  • he could've done, which is a reflection.

- [Instructor] We're told, "Kason was curious

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