Ratios
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Scale Factor
Similar Polygons
Other Stuff
100

Simplified form of the following ratio: 2 lb: 24 lb.

What is 1:12?

100

The value of z in:  z:4 = 15:12

What is 5?

100

Two corresponding sides of similar triangles have the lengths of 30 cm and 60 cm. What would be the scale factor of these triangles?

What is 1:2 or 2:1?

100

Decide if the 2 triangles are similar. (y/n)

Triangle ABC: <A = 30, <B=60

Triangle DEF: <F = 90, <E = 30

What is yes?

100

The factor relating two similar polygons

What is the scale factor?

200

The simplified form of the ratio 16 m: 500 cm

What is 16:5?

200

The value of x in:   x-3:7 = 1:14

What is 7/2 or 3.5?

200

Find the scale factor from a smaller triangle to a bigger triangle if the perimeter of each is 20 and 50, respectively.

What is 2:5 or 2/5 or 0.40?

200

Determine if the triangles are similar:

Triangle ABC: AB = 20, BC = 12, AC = 24

Triangle DEF: DE = 15, EF = 9, DF = 18

What is: yes


200

What does this symbol mean ~ ??

What is similar?

300

The three measures of a triangle whose angles are in the ratio of 2:3:4. Find the measure of each angle. 

What are 40˚, 60˚, 80˚?

300

What is r in: r+7:60 = 4:15

What is 9?

300

Find the scale factor from a bigger nonagon to a smaller nonagon if a pair of corresponding sides are 33 and 9, respectively.

What is 11:3 or 11/3 or 3.67?

300

A flagpole casts a shadow of 28 feet at the same time the shadow of a person 6 feet tall is 2 feet long. How tall is the flagpole?

What is 84 ft?

300

Triple Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

108 inches = _____yards 

What is 3 yards? 

400

Draw a segment with points M, N and P.  In the diagram MN:NP is 4:7 and MP = 55. Find MN and NP. 

What is MN = 20 and MP = 35 ?

400

The value of y in:   32:y+7 = 67:13+y

What is -53/35 or -1.5143

400

If triangle ABC ~ triangle DEF and AB = 3 and DE = 6. Find the scale factor from triangle ABC to triangle DEF. 

What is 1/2 or 1:2?

400

Double the Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are the triangles similar? 

Triangle XYZ: <X = 48, <Y = 77

Triangle GFH: <H = 55, <G = 48

What is yes

400
3 lbs = _____ ounces

What is 48?

500

The perimeter of a rectangle is 132 meters. The ratio of the length to the width is 8:3. Find the length and the width of the rectangle 

What is length 48 feet and width 18 feet

500
What is x in: x:4 = 25:x 

What is 10?

500
True or False: If two polygons are similar, then the ratio of their perimeters is equal to the ratio of their corresponding side lenghts.

What is True?

500

In table tennis, the table is a rectangle 9 feet long and 5 feet wide. A tennis court is a rectangle 78 feet long and 36 feet wide. Are the two surfaces similar? Explain.

What is no?


The sides are not proportional.


500

Inches in a mile.

What is 63,360 inches. 

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