Slower day today, but we made some good progress towards understanding kites.

Ms Carpenter completed her argument from last time, and thus showed 2.5 is a theorem. Mr Schulte had much the same argument.

Without other presentations, we then set to work. Pretty quickly, we found this:

Question J: (Peters) Can we construct a kite with a given pair of sides and a given pair of opposite angles. More specifically: Given angles XYZ and $$\alpha \beta \gamma$$, and segments TJ and PQ, is it possible to construct a kite ABCD such that AB is congruent to TJ, BC is congruent to PQ, angle DAB is congruent to angle XYZ and angle DCB is congruent to angle $$\alpha \beta \gamma$$?

We worked for a bit longer.

Mr Schmidt then started a proof of this statement, which we have not completed.

Lemma K: (Schmidt) Given segments AB and XY, one can construct triangle ABC so that BA and BC are both congruent to XY.

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Theron J Hitchman
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University of Nothern Iowa
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