Lesson 9: Practice Problems
Problem 1
These two triangles are similar.
What are
Problem 2
Here is triangle
Draw what triangle
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 .
Problem 3
The two triangles shown are similar. Find the value of
Problem 4 From Unit 2 Lesson 5
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.