What's the Scale?
Riddles
Vocab
Grab Bag
Miscellaneous
100
True or False: A scale factor of 1 makes a copy smaller.
What is false
100
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
100
What is an equivalent ratio
A ratio that can be simplified to the same set of numbers
25 to 50 = 1 to 2
100
True/False
The corresponding angles of similar figures are always congruent (the same)
What is true?
100
The space inside a two dimensional figure expressed in square units (Length times 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
True or false, A scale factor of 1 means a copy is smaller than the original
False Scale copy of 1 is an exact replica
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
A scale factor of two means the copy is larger. True or false
True
300
True/False
If my scale factor is 1, my shape gets smaller
What is false?
300
How many years has Mrs. Powers taught at SMS?
12
400
True or False: To use a scale factor of 1/2. The original lengths of a shape must multiplied by 1/2.
What is true
400
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
400
What does scale factor mean? 
The number that is used to multiply all the lengths of a shape.
400
True/False
Multiplying by a scale factor less than 1 causes a shape to get bigger.
What is false?
400
Name the US President that is from Scranton, Mrs. Powers hometown.
President Biden
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
True or False Quantities are proportional if they form equivalent ratios. For example if I use 1 cup of yellow and 2 cups of blue to make green for one wall and use 2 cups of yellow and 4 cups of blue to make green for 2 2 walls that is proportional.
true
For example if I use 1 cup of yellow and 2 cups of blue to make green for one wall and use 2 cups of yellow and 4 cups of blue to make green for 2 2 walls that is proportional.
500
Before Maine was a state, what state was it a part of ?
Massachusetts
500
Name a US senator or member of the house of representatives in Maine A snake pit
Susan Collins, Chellie Pingreen. Angus King