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?

1) In order for the the two paralellograms to be similar the angles have to be the same.


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

2) A way to find the missing side lenth is to divide or multiply a corrosponding side by the scale factor and you will have the answer.

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?

3) The other side lengh of the side is 10 inches.