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determine if the two figures are congruent and explain your answer.

my answer is they aren't congruent. i just need explaining why. can someone develop a better and detailed answer and explain to me how you got there so i can understand as well? : )

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congruent means that both shapes are similar. If you check each side they are similar but the shape is fliped, This shows that they are related (similar).

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 The easiest way to find whether they are congruent is to apply Pythagoras for each of the "hypotenuse" of the related right triangles:

AB² = √(1+2²) = AB =√5, follow the same logic for all the other hypotenuses.
BC = √5
CD =√20
AD=√10

Now let's apply the same principle for EFGH:
EF =√5
GF =√5
HG =√20
HE =√10

We notice that the 2 figures are CONGRUENT since all related and respective sides are equal.

Thats where they was ported and the fields that noone really knew much about needed tended, so they put slaves out there do free work and huge profits and so on the north decided to hold its own and was more different way of survival did not have same climate conditions to afford protecting slaves from winter so expenses be diff from south