Homework Help: geometry

Posted by ashley on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 11:32am.

You are given two segments, with AB = 4 and with CD = 7. Explain how you could use only the congruent-segments construction to construct with EF = 1.

geometry - Helper, Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 2:00pm
Not sure I understand your question but I'll give it a try.

AB = 4,
2 AB = 2 * 4 = 8

CD = 7
EF = 1

2AB - 1CD = EF
8 - 7 = 1
geometry - Christy, Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 4:42pm
2x+63= 4x+2

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