Triangles on a Rectangle's Diagonal
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- marenmac
Triangles made by sliding a point down a rectangle's diagonal are congruent, therefore the smaller rectangles created must have equal area.
1. How do you know that the 2 blue triangles are congruent to each other? The two green triangles are congruent to each other by the same argument.
2. How does that result in pairs of non-congruent rectangles that have equal area?