Sean began jogging to live a healthier lifestyle. On his first run, he ran one-half mile. He increased his workouts by adding two miles a month to his run. He wrote the equation f(x)= 0.5 + 2x to model his progress. The variable x represents the number of miles he runs.

Given: ae ≅ ce ; de ≅ be prove: abcd is a parallelogram. we have that ab || dc. by a similar argument used to prove that △aeb ≅ △ced, we can show that △ ≅ △ceb by. so, ∠cad ≅ ∠ by cpctc. therefore, ad || bc by the converse of the theorem. since both pair of opposite sides are parallel, quadrilateral abcd is a parallelogram.