10TH GRADE GEOMETRY - INTENSIVE
(the parallelogram: length is 16 height is 11)
Rakisha is puzzled. She is working with a parallelogram drawn at right and wants to make it smaller.
a. What should she do if she wants the side of her new shape to be HALF AS LONG as the original sides? What zoom factor should she use? Find the dimensions of her new shape.
b. While drawing some other shapes, Rakisha ended up with a shape congruent to the original parallelogram. What is the common ratio between pairs of corresponding sides?

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10TH GRADE GEOMETRY - INTENSIVE 
(the parallelogram: length is 16 height is 11) 
Rakisha is puzzled. She is working with a parallelogram drawn at right and wants to make it smaller.
a. What should she do if she wants the side of her new shape to be HALF AS LONG as the original sides? What zoom factor should she use? Find the dimensions of her new shape.
b. While drawing some other shapes, Rakisha ended up with a shape congruent to the original parallelogram. What is the common ratio between pairs of corresponding sides?

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