What's the Scale?
Riddles
Corresponding Parts
Grab Bag
Miscellaneous
100
The scale factor from triangle PQR To triangle STU.
What is 2?
100
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
100
The point that corresponds to Point P.
What is point S?
100
True/False
The corresponding angles of similar figures are always congruent (the same)
What is true?
100
length x width
Area
200
Triangle ABC has sides measuring 5, 6, and 7 cm. Triangle DEF has sides measuring 10, 12, and 14 cm. What is the scale factor?
What is 2?
200
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them
200
The line segment that corresponds to line segment PQ.
What is line segment ST?
200
True or False, when I enlarge a shape, it gets bigger
TRUE
200
The reciprocal of 4/5
5/4
300
The scale factor from triangle NPW to triangle N`P`W`is ...
What is 1/4?
300
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He's bald
300
The angle that corresponds to angle PQR.
What is angle STU?
300
True/False
If my scale factor is 1, my shape gets smaller
What is false?
300
length + length + width + width
Perimeter
400
Rectangle ABCD is similar to rectangle FGHI. The perimeter of rectangle FGHI is 50% the perimeter of ABCD. What was the scale factor from ABCD to FGHI?
What is 1/2?
400
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
400
What line segment corresponds with segment AC?
What is line segment DF?
400
True/False
Multiplying by a scale factor less than 1 causes a shape to get bigger.
What is false?
400
radius x 2 x pi
Circumference (of a circle)
500
ABC and DEF are similar. ABC has side lengths 3, 9, 10 and DEF has side lengths 12,36,40. What is my scale factor from ABC to DEF?
What is 4?
500
A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
He was born on February 29
500
What angle corresponds with angle ABC?
What is angle DEF?
500
The value of x.
What is x = 65 degrees.
500
What is the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 7 and width of 3.
20