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Math: High School: 9th and 10th Grade Quiz - Similarity (Questions)

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If you have already tried the Congruence and Mathematical Definitions quizzes you will have a good understanding of similarity, but how well can you apply it? Test yourself in the high school Math quiz!

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Similarity is very close to congruence, but is slightly relaxed in that the length of corresponding sides don’t have to be equal, but they do have to have the same scale factor. Therefore, similarity is also connected with ENLARGEMENT. If we enlarge a shape, we apply a scale factor to each side. The new shape, the image, will be similar to the original shape, the object. The corresponding angles won’t have changed.

One way to look at similarity problems is to identify pairs of corresponding sides. Does each pair have the same scale factor? If so, then the two shapes are similar.

Conversely, if you are told the two shapes are similar, you can work out what the scale factor is then use it to calculate the missing lengths.

Just as with congruency, you can prove similarity in triangles by seeing if one of four rules apply:

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