You are Miguel Cervantes de Navas y Colon, captain in the Royal Spanish Army in Sevilla in the year 1842. Outside your barracks window is a stack of
cannonballs, as shown in the illustration. On an idle afternoon you decide to
calculate the number of cannonballs in the stack. What is the number of
cannonballs? a.346 b.385 c.285 d.361

Select the correct answer. given: ∆abc with prove: statement reason 1. given 2. ∠cab ≅ ∠edb ∠acb ≅ ∠deb if two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, the corresponding angles are congruent. 3. ∆abc ~ ∆dbe aa criterion for similarity 4. corresponding sides of similar triangles are proportional. 5. ab = ad + db cb = ce + eb segment addition 6. substitution property of equality 7. division 8. subtraction property of equality what is the missing statement in the proof? scroll down to see the entire proof.