Two figures are congruent if there is a or of rigid motions that maps one of the figures onto the other. As a result, congruent figures have the same size and shape. To denote algebraically that two figures are congruent, the symbol
≅
is used.
When writing a congruence, the corresponding must be listed in the same order. For the polygons above, two of the possible congruence statements can be written as follows. ABCDE ≅ JKLMN or CDEAB ≅ LMNJK