Wednesday, October 20, 2010

HL Postulate


HL Postulate
If the hypotenuse and leg of one right triangle are congruent to the corresponding parts of another right triangle, then the triangles are congruent (Figure 6 ). 







Figure 6



The hypotenuse and one leg (HL) of the first right triangle are congruent to the corresponding parts of the second right triangle.
It is important that the HL Postulate ONLY applies to RIGHT triangles. So when using in a proof, one statement must be that the triangles are right triangles.


Thanks to everyone for their support in getting me to do the blog.
Joey

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  1. Mr. WilhelmOctober 21, 2010 at 9:51 AM

    Something to keep in mind as the rest of you think about creating a post for the blog:

    Cutting and pasting from the Cliffs Notes web site (or anywhere else) is not what I had in mind for this resource.

    You're supposed to be exaplaining things as they made sense to you and how you think it would be helpful for others.

    This blog was not intended for plagiarism.

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