G.3.16 Practice Problems

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Match the vocabulary term with its definition: Scale Drawing

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There is a sequence of rigid motions and dilations that takes the first figure onto the second.
When 2 angles of one triangle are congruent to 2 angles of a second triangle, the 2 triangles will be similar.
A transformation using a center C and scale factor k that takes a point A to another point along the ray CA whose distance is k times farther from C than A is.
A drawing in which all lengths in the drawing correspond to lengths in the object by the same scale.
A constant multiple by which all lengths of the original figure are multiplied.

Match the vocabulary term with its definition: Scale Factor

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There is a sequence of rigid motions and dilations that takes the first figure onto the second.
When 2 angles of one triangle are congruent to 2 angles of a second triangle, the 2 triangles will be similar.
A transformation using a center C and scale factor k that takes a point A to another point along the ray CA whose distance is k times farther from C than A is.
A drawing in which all lengths in the drawing correspond to lengths in the object by the same scale.
A constant multiple by which all lengths of the original figure are multiplied.

Match the vocabulary term with its definition: Dilation

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There is a sequence of rigid motions and dilations that takes the first figure onto the second.
When 2 angles of one triangle are congruent to 2 angles of a second triangle, the 2 triangles will be similar.
A transformation using a center C and scale factor k that takes a point A to another point along the ray CA whose distance is k times farther from C than A is.
A drawing in which all lengths in the drawing correspond to lengths in the object by the same scale.
A constant multiple by which all lengths of the original figure are multiplied.

Match the vocabulary term with its definition: Similar Figures

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There is a sequence of rigid motions and dilations that takes the first figure onto the second.
When 2 angles of one triangle are congruent to 2 angles of a second triangle, the 2 triangles will be similar.
A transformation using a center C and scale factor k that takes a point A to another point along the ray CA whose distance is k times farther from C than A is.
A drawing in which all lengths in the drawing correspond to lengths in the object by the same scale.
A constant multiple by which all lengths of the original figure are multiplied.

Match the vocabulary term with its definition: Angle-Angle Similarity

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There is a sequence of rigid motions and dilations that takes the first figure onto the second.
When 2 angles of one triangle are congruent to 2 angles of a second triangle, the 2 triangles will be similar.
A transformation using a center C and scale factor k that takes a point A to another point along the ray CA whose distance is k times farther from C than A is.
A drawing in which all lengths in the drawing correspond to lengths in the object by the same scale.
A constant multiple by which all lengths of the original figure are multiplied.

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