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AAS Criteria for Congruency

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If two triangles have their corresponding angles equal, are they always congruent? If not, draw two triangles which are not congruent but which have their corresponding angles equal.

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No, its not necessary. If the corresponding angles of two triangles are equal, then they may or may not be congruent.
They may have proportional sides as shown in the following figure:

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