IM Geo.3.11 Practice: Splitting Triangle Sides with Dilation, Part 2
Segment is parallel to segment .
What is the length of segment ?
What is the length of segment ?
Explain how you know that segment is not parallel to segment .
In right triangle , and . A new triangle is formed by connecting the midpoints of and .
What is the area of triangle ?
What is the area of triangle ?
Does the scale factor for the side lengths apply to the area as well?
Which of these statements is true?
Are triangles and similar in the applet below? Show or explain your reasoning.
If possible, find the length of . If not, explain why the length of cannot be determined.
What is the length of segment in the applet below?
The triangle is taken to triangle by a dilation. Select all of the scale factors for the dilation that would result in an image that was smaller than the original figure.