Question

Help!

Answer 1

Okay . . .1 sec while I solve this . . .

Answer 2

Thanks.

Answer 3

Okay, now this will be a little complex, but I'll describe it step-by-step, to lessen the confusion. First let me ask - do you know the distance formula?

Answer 4

Sort pf, yes/

Answer 5

Okay - I just wanted to check to make sure you would understand what I am going to show you. Alright - here goes . . . .

Answer 6

The first thing that we should do, is draw a picture of the two parallelograms that we have . . . .





Note: I put the letters of the angles inside the parallelograms, to save space.

There are a couple of things that you need to first notice: when a problem says that figures are similar, that means that they are the same SHAPE (which means that they will have the same angles), but it usually also means that they will be different SIZES. We know that PQRS is bigger than ABCD (in fact - if the ratio is 4:1, then that means that PQRS is 4 TIMES AS LARGE AS ABCD). Now that we know this, let's move onto our next step . . . .