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11-82.
The two triangles below are similar.
Find the area of each triangle.
Area A
Area BWhat is the scale factor for the side lengths of the two triangles?
Find the ratio between one of the pairs of
corresponding sides for the two triangles.Use
or . What do you get after simplifying?
What is the ratio of the areas (
)? How is this ratio related to the ratio you found in part (b)? How can you change the scale
factor to get this area ratio?