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BoredDude

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So... does anyone want to inform me what the reflection theory is?
 

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LOL. I just made that as a fake reason haha.
______ (reflection theory)

Honestly no idea haha
 

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I figured out what the theory was an hour after I looked at the question haha.
 

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when you did it could you just assume it? is that what it meant, so then you proved triangles congruent etc??
or did you have to prove the property haha
 

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Naa the question said "Use the reflection property" so you assume it.
 
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it's a very specific dot point in the syllabus

deriving it is a hell of a lot of algebra, but simple algebra nonetheless
 
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I had no idea what it was, I just assumed that by using it I could figure out that <PSQ=<PRQ so I went:

By inspection, using the reflection property of the ellipse <PSQ=<PRQ
Then I proved that triangles PSQ and PQR were congruent (equiangular) and equated the congruent sides.

Basically, I By Inspection'd it like a boss.
 

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I had no idea what it was, I just assumed that by using it I could figure out that <PSQ=<PRQ so I went:

By inspection, using the reflection property of the ellipse <PSQ=<PRQ
Then I proved that triangles PSQ and PQR were congruent (equiangular) and equated the congruent sides.

Basically, I By Inspection'd it like a boss.
equiangular =/= congruent
 
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You could have stated the perpendicular from the vertex to the base bisects the base in an isos triangle. Much quicker
 

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