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ABCD is a parallelogram and AP and CQ are perpendiculars from vertex A and C on diagonal BD.
Show that (i) `DeltaAPB~=DeltaCQD` (ii) `AP=CQ`.

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(i) `DeltaAPB~=DeltaCQD` , (ii) `;.` AP = CQ
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