Triangle S R Q is shown. Angle S R Q is a right angle. An altitude is drawn from point R to point T on side S Q to form a right angle. The length of T Q is 16 and the length of R Q is 20.

Which best explains why all equilateral triangles are similar?
On a coordinate plane, a line is drawn from Rock to Tree. The x- and y-axes are labeled feet. Rock is at (3, 2) and Tree is at (16, 21).

Consider the two triangles.




If point P is of the distance from M to N, what ratio does the point P partition the directed line segment from M to N into?

Triangles R S T and V U T are connected at point T. Angles R S T and V U T are right angles. The length of side R S is 12 and the length of side S T is 16. The length of side T U is 8 and the length of U V is 6.





Triangles L M N and P O N connect at point N. Angles L M N and N O P are congruent.

Triangle RST was dilated by a scale factor of . The image, triangle R'S'T', is an isosceles triangle, with each leg measuring 8 units.

On a coordinate plane, Rectangles A B C D and E F G H are shown. The length of side A B is 6 units and the length of side B C is 3 units. The length of side E F is 8 units and the length of side F G is 4 units.


Triangle ABC was dilated using the rule .

is an altitude in triangle WXZ.

Triangle TVW is dilated according to the ruleDO,(x,y) to create the image triangle T'V'W', which is not shown.

Parallelogram FGHJ was dilated and translated to form similar parallelogram F'G'H'J'.



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Quadrilateral JKLM was dilated according to the ruleDO,(x,y) to create the image quadrilateral J'K'L'M', which is shown on the graph.

On a coordinate plane, a line is drawn from point A to point B. Point A is at (9, negative 8) and point B is at (negative 6, 7).

If an image of a triangle is congruent to the pre-image, what is the scale factor of the dilation?

In the diagram, DG = 12, GF = 4, EH = 9, and HF = 3.


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