Friday, October 31, 2008

. 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?2) Describe a way to find a missing side length in a pair of similar figures.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?



1. In order for two parallelograms to be similar they have to have the same angles and the same sf.
2. A way to describe finding a missing side length in a pair of similar figures is to find the sf and then multiply or divide to get the answer.
3. The other side lengths should be 10 because to get to 7.5 to 3 you have to multiply by 2.5 to get the answer and 2.5 X 4 would be 10.

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