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Assume that you had a two right triangles with one congruent acute (<90 degrees) angle in common. Let x represent the number of degrees in this angle in both triangles (which we can do since the angles are congruent). Let y represent the degree of the other angle in the first triangle and let z represent the degree of the other angle in the second triangle. We know that the sum of the degrees of the angles in a triangle is 180. So for the first triangle we have,
90+x+y = 180
For the second triangle,
90+x+z=180
Therefore,
90+x+y=90+x+z
Subtract the 90+x from each side:
y=z
Therefore the degrees of the angles of the two triangles both are 90 [because they are both right triangles], x [because we said that this is the number of degrees of the congruent angles given in the problem], and y [because y=z]. Because the three angles of both triangles have the same measurement, the triangles must be similar.
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