IM 8.2.9 Practice: Side Length Quotients in Similar Triangles
These two triangles are similar. What are a and b? Note: the two figures are not drawn to scale.
Here is triangle ABC. Triangle XYZ is similar to ABC with scale factor 1/4. Draw what triangle XYZ might look like.
How do the angle measures of triangle compare to triangle ? Explain how you know.
What are the side lengths of triangle ?
For triangle , calculate (long side) (medium side), and compare to triangle .
The two triangles shown are similar.
Find the value of .
The diagram shows two nested triangles that share a vertex. Find a center and a scale factor for a dilation that would move the larger triangle to the smaller triangle.
Where is the center?
What is the scale factor?