How Do You Identify Common Parts in Overlapping Triangles?

How Do You Identify Common Parts in Overlapping Triangles?

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It might seem like a challenge to make sense of figures with overlapping triangles, but it's not so difficult! This video gives some commonsense advice for identifying common angles and common sides in these figures.

Keywords:

  • problem
  • identify
  • common
  • parts
  • overlapping triangles
  • overlap
  • shared angle
  • shared side

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