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a man who is 5 feet tall stands 15 feet from a lamppost that is 27 feet high. how far away from the man is the tip of his
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joe
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A 6-foot person standing 15 feet from a streetlight casts a 15-foot shadow. Two similar triangles are formed. One triangle is
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Anonymous
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Marcia is 1.5 meters tall. She casts a shadow that is 2 meters long. A nearby building casts a shadow that is 24 meters long.
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eddie
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after your holiday you have come home and decided that you are going to open up your own business.In order to advertise you put
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Dwight
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The sides of a triangle are 8,15 and 18 the shortest side of a similar triangle is 10 how long are the other sides?
Find the
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barbie lee
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Use similar triangles to determine the slope of the line.
(1 point) The slope is
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These two scalene triangles are similar with a scale of 2:3. What is true about these figures?
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Pepppa
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Triangle Lmn is similar to triangle xyz. Triangle LMN has a side of 5 and 3. The scale factor of triangle Lmn to triangle xyz is
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yote
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A pole 12 feet tall casts a shadow 9 feet long. How tall is a tree that casts a shadow 54 feet long?
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Francisco
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Triangle XYZ above is similar to triangle UVW (not shown). If the length of one side of triangle UVW is 60, then what is one
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chris
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In the accompanying diagram, triangle ABCis similar to triangle DEF, AC = 6, AB = BC = 12, and DF = 8. Find the perimeter of
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Anonymous
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If ∆ ABC ~ ∆ DEF, BC = 12 cm, EF = 10 cm, and AC = 18 cm, find DF.
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Dave
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Given that triangles PQR~STU:triangle #1 sides 8,9,10 triangle #2 3,?,?
a) What is the ratio of similitude of PQR~STU triangles?
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Ana
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A 12-foot flagpole casts a nine-foot shadow. What is the measure from the top of the shadow to the top of the flag pole?
15 21 3
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trent
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a 9 foot street sign casts a 12 foot shadow. the lamppost next to it castss a 24 foot shadow. how tall is the lamppost?
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kayla
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Jacob stands 4.5 feet tall and casts a 2.7 foot shadow.
A. Using this relationship, determine how tall Jacob's house is if the
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Wendy
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Use the image to answer the question.
An illustration shows a coordinate plane with the x-axis ranging from negative 9 to 9 in
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professionalwattpadreader
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if you have two similar triangles and the scale factor is 3:5 and 12 times square root of 3 is one side, what is the
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Anna-Marie
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One triangle has vertices A, B, and C. Another has vertices T, R, and I. Are the two triangles similar? If so state the
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Anna-Marie
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Using the shadow method, Norman finds the height of a tree as follows: He measures the shadow of the measuring stick (4ft) and
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kat
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if 6, 10, and 12, and 9, and x are the lengths of the coresponding sides of two similair triangles, what is the value of x?
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Lydia
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a man 1.8 metres, standing under a street light, notices that his shadow is 6.5metres. He walks 12 metres in the direction of
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Chris
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If the length of the sides of two similar triangles are in the ratio 3:4, what is the ratio of the lengths of a pair of
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CJ
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How high is a tree that casts a 26-ft shadow at the same time a 8-ft post casts a shadow which is 11-ft long?
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brody
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Joel is walking down a street and sees a 115 ft tall building in front of him. He stops 190 feet from the base of the building
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shay
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Note: Your teacher will grade your responses to the following question to ensure you receive proper credit for your answers.
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Strawberry Cow
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Triangle ABC has the side of lengths of 6,8,9.
HGI is similar to ABC which has the side length of 12, 8, and its missing one
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Katherine
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Given that triangles KON and LOM are similar, find the scale factor
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Lydia
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1. If triangles EIO = UAN, EI = 3x-4, IO = 2x+5, UA = 2x+3 and UN = 3x+1, solve for the value of x, find the perimeter of
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Lily
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George has been hired to paint the smith's house. He needs to be sure his ladder will reach the highest part of the house, so he
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kat
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a 26 foot tree cast a shadow of 14 feet, a nearby tower cast a shadow of 21 feet, how tall is the tower?
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jamie
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A man is walking away from a lamppost with a light source h = 6 m above the ground. The man is m = 1.5 m tall. How long is the
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Anonymous
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Which of the following is NOT a way you can show that triangles are similar?
A.AAA similarity B.SAS similarity C.SSA similarity
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Superman
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I am ask to write a two column proof. Given that AD is the diameter of circle O, and DC is tangent to O at D. Prove that
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Lexie
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construct a triangle ABC similar to given triangle equilateral triangle PQR with side sum such that each of its sides is 6/7 of
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sumit
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(05.05 MC) The graph shows the depth, y, in meters, of a shark from the surface of an ocean for a certain amount of time, x,
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Eep
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apply the rule (1.5x, 1.5y) to the vertices of triangle ABC to get triangle PDR.
Compare the corresponding measurements (side
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jacko
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The scale factor of triangle DEF to triangle HJK is 5/2. If EF =15 find JK
EF : JK = 5 : 2 15 : JK = 5 : 2 15 * 2 = JK * 5 30 =
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DANIELLE
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Pete is standing 2 feet away from a mirror on the ground. Pete is 5 feet tall and can just see the top of the tree in the mirror
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Anonymous
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There are two similar triangles XYZ, and ABC. If x = 8, c = 5, and y = b, find z and a. How am I suppose to solve this problem
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Milly
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Why can you use similar triangles to explain why the slope is the same between any two distinct points on a nonvertical line?(1
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im NOT racist
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girl 5 feet case a shadow of 61/2 ft at the same time a statue shadow 12 feet how tall is the statue
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Anonymous
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A 6 feet tall man walks away from a streetlight that is 15 feet high at a rate of 5 ft/s. Express the length 's' of his shadow
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Rosie
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ABCD is a parallelogram.the bisectors of the angle and C meet the diagonal BD in P and Q respectively. Prove that triangleAPQ
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taskeen
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I am currently in a section of my geometry book titled Applying Properties of Similar Triangles. This is a very easy section but
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Tami
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the height of a tower is 20 metres and the length of its shadow is 25 metres.what will be the heigth of the tower if its shadow
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sadia
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The triangles below are similar. What is the value of x?
* 2 points Captionless Image 22 16 12 18
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pe
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How tall is a tower if it casts a shadow 65 ft long at the same time that a
building 160 ft tall casts a shadow 130 ft long?
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drew
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A man stands next to the cape hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina. The lighthouse and the man are
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Linda h
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Triangle Lmn is similar to triangle xyz. Triangle LMN has a side of 5 and 3. The scale factor of triangle Lmn to triangle xyz is
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I AM SINGLE
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Angle relationships
Geometric Figures
Geometry
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Light and shadow
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Similar Shapes
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Similarity and Proportion
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