On a piece of paper, use your protractor to draw a triangle that has two angles of the same measure. Cut the triangle out of the paper and fold the triangle in half so that the angles of equal measure coincide (one lies over the other). What seems to be true of two of the sides of that triangle?

On a piece of paper, use your protractor to draw a triangle that has two angles of the same measure. Cut the triangle out of the paper and fold the triangle in half so that the angles of equal measure coincide (one lies over the other). What seems to be true of two of the sides of that triangle?

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On a piece of paper, use your protractor to draw a triangle
that has two angles of the same measure. Cut the triangle
out of the paper and fold the triangle in half so that the
angles of equal measure coincide (one lies over the other).
What seems to be true of two of the sides of that triangle?

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