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Choose the best definition of congruence out of the choices given.

A. If two figures have the same shape, then they are congruent.

B. If two figures have the same area, then they are congruent.

C. If there is a sequence of transformations taking one figure to another, then they are congruent.

D. If there is a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations that take one figure to the other, then they are congruent.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
D

Congruent figures are those related by rigid motions (isometries) — rotations, reflections, and translations — which preserve distances and therefore size and shape. Option C is too broad (it could include dilations), A and B are not sufficient.