Texts: For right triangles: A hypotenuse and a leg define congruence. LL Two legs define congruence. LA A leg and an acute angle define congruence. HA A hypotenuse and an acute angle define congruence. HL
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In a right triangle, the sides that form the right angle are the legs; the longest side (opposite the right angle) is the hypotenuse. Some textbooks say that when two right triangles have congruent pairs of legs, the right triangles are congruent by the reason LL. In our work, LL is just a special case of one of the postulates in this section. Which postulate is that?
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