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It is well-known that in any parallelogram the opposite angles are equal. A rhombus is a parallelogram, so the angles and
are congruent.
Also, it is known that any diagonal of a rhombus bisects the corresponding angles. Therefore angles and
are congruent, and
and
are congruent. From this and the first paragraph we infer that the angles
and
are congruent (both are halves of the congruent angles).
Now we can finish the proof. The triangles and
have two pairs of congruent sides:
by the conditions and
by definition of rhombus. Also the angles between these sides are equal in both triangles,
as proved above. Therefore these triangles are congruent by the side-angle-side rule (SAS).
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