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We know that isometries, by definiton, are transformations that preserve distances.
How might we know that they also preserve angles?
Congruent triangles provide a simple and quick proof that isometries preserve angles.
Suppose that we have an angle . We map it by an isometry to the angle .
Since the transformation is an isometry: By SSS congruence, we know that !
Now, since corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent (commonly abbreviated CPCTC), we have the desired result: that .
Since the choice of was arbitrary, we can carry out the same process for any angle.
Thus, we see that all angles are preserved under isometries, and the proof is complete.