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Question
In the pair of triangles in the following figure, parts bearing identical marks are congruent. State the test and the correspondence of vertices by the triangle in pairs is congruent.

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Solution
The triangles are congruent by the SAA or ASA test, under the correspondence MTN ↔ STN.
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