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) The Angles have to be the same and the ratias have to be the same
2) you mutiply by 2.5 to get 7.5
3) the side lathes are 6 because 2.5 x 4 = 6

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I think you find the similarities if they have the same agels or the scale factor can add into each other exp. (2 sf 4 sf 2 goes into 4).



2. pug is similar to mug because the scale factors can go into each other and the angels are the same. The scale factor is x4. 16 mugs will fit in pug.