Answer the following questions on YOUR blog as a post. Use the same title as mine for your post. Write your answers in complete sentences! An easy way to do this is to copy and paste the questions below onto your post and then put your answers in a different color!
1) What has to be the same in order for two parallelograms to be similar?
In order for parallelograms to be similar they need to have the same angles.
2) Describe a way to find a missing side length in a pair of similar figures.
In order to find a missing side length in a pair of similar figures you fist have to find the scale facter of the figures. Second youtake the one corrasponding side that has the number and then take scale facter and multiply the two numbers and the anwser you get is your missing number.
3) I have a small isosceles triangle with a base of 3 inches and other sides are 4 inches.I want to create a similar isosceles triangle with a base of 7.5 inches.What should the other side lengths be and why?
the missing numbers are 10 because i found the scale factor and then i took the corrasponding sides of the missing sides then tookscale factor and multiplyed them together.
Friday, October 31, 2008
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Pretty good, Amber! What else needs to be the same in order for shapes to be similar? grade 8/9
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