IM Geo.3.6 Practice: Connecting Similarity and Transformations
Find a sequence of rigid motions and dilations that takes square to square .
Quadrilaterals Q and P are similar.
What is the scale factor of the dilation that takes to ?
What is the scale factor of the dilation that takes to ?
What is our definition of similarity?
Triangle is formed by connecting the midpoints of the sides of triangle .
The lengths of the sides of are shown. What is the length of ?
If is 12, what is the length of ?
Right angle is taken by a dilation with center and scale factor to angle . What is the measure of angle ?
Use the applet below:
- Dilate point using center and scale factor .
- Dilate segment using center and scale factor .
A polygon has perimeter 12. It is dilated with a scale factor of and the resulting image has a perimeter of 8. What is the scale factor?
Select all the statements that must be true.