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parallelogram abcd is shown below.
thalia is using triangle congruence to prove properties of parallelograms.
if she wants to prove that \\(\overline{db}\\) bisects \\(\overline{ac}\\) and \\(\overline{ac}\\) bisects \\(\overline{db}\\), which triangle cong
a triangles abe and cde are congruent to each other.
b triangles abe and bce are congruent to each other.
To prove that the diagonals bisect each other, we need to show that the segments of each diagonal are equal. For parallelogram \(ABCD\), \(AB \parallel CD\) and \(AB = CD\). \(\angle ABE = \angle CDE\) and \(\angle BAE = \angle DCE\) (alternate interior angles). By ASA congruence, \(\triangle ABE \cong \triangle CDE\), which gives \(AE = CE\) and \(BE = DE\), proving the diagonals bisect each other. The other pair of triangles does not relate to the diagonal segments.
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A. Triangles ABE and CDE are congruent to each other.