Side-Angle-Side Congruence

Pronunciation: /saɪd 'æŋ.gəl saɪd kən'gru.əns/ Explain
Abbreviation: SAS Congruence

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Two triangles are congruent if two adjacent sides and the angle contained by the sides are congruent with corresponding sides and angle of the other triangle^[2][3]. In this case we say that the triangles are SAS congruent. SAS stands for side, angle, side.

Proof of SAS Congruence

Step	Example	Description	Justification
1		Start with triangle ABC and DEF. Let AB be congruent to DE. Let BC be congruent to EF. Let ∠ABC be congruent to ∠DEF.	Starting conditions.
2		The claim is that AC ≅ DF, ∠BCA ≅ ∠EFD, ∠CAB ≅ ∠FDE, and ΔABC ≅ ΔDEF.	Claim
3		If ΔABC is placed on top of ΔDEF, the point A is on top of point D. Also, the line segment AB is on top of DE, and the line segment BC is on top of DF. Since point A coincides with D and point C coincides with point F, then the line segment AC must coincide with the line segment DF.	Euclid Elements Book 1 Common Notion 4: Things which coincide one with another are equal.
4		Since all sides of ΔABC coincide with all sides of ΔDEF, ΔABC ≅ ΔDEF. It must also be true that ∠BCA ≅ ∠EFD and ∠CAB ≅ ∠FDE. QED.	Euclid Elements Book 1 Common Notion 4: Things which coincide one with another are equal.

References

1. McAdams, David E.. All Math Words Dictionary, side-angle-side congruence. 2nd Classroom edition 20150108-4799968. pg 160. Life is a Story Problem LLC. January 8, 2015. Buy the book
2. Euclid. Elements, Book 1 Proposition 4. Book 1, proposition 4. Translated by Joyce, D. Clark University. Last Accessed 12/13/2018. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookI/propI4.html. Buy the book
3. Hilbert, David. The Foundations of Geometry. pg 10. Translated by Townsend, E. J., Ph. D.. The Open Court Publishing Company. 1950. Last Accessed 12/13/2018. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17384/17384-pdf.pdf. Buy the book

More Information

• Euclid of Alexandria. Elements. Clark University. 9/6/2018. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/elements.html.

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McAdams, David E. Side-Angle-Side Congruence. 12/21/2018. All Math Words Encyclopedia. Life is a Story Problem LLC. https://www.allmathwords.org/en/s/sascongruence.html.

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• All images and manipulatives are by David McAdams unless otherwise stated. All images by David McAdams are Copyright © Life is a Story Problem LLC and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Revision History

12/21/2018: Reviewed and corrected IPA pronunication. (McAdams, David E.)
12/5/2018: Removed broken links, updated license, implemented new markup, implemented new Geogebra app. (McAdams, David E.)
8/7/2018: Changed vocabulary links to WORDLINK format. (McAdams, David E.)
12/21/2009: Added "References". (McAdams, David E.)
11/1/2008: Changed manipulatives to GeoGebra. (McAdams, David E.)
8/25/2007: Initial version. (McAdams, David E.)