Question

triangles JKL and PML are similar. find x.

Answer 1

Is there a picture?

Answer 2

answers are
100
50
5
4

Answer 3

use this property of similar triangles:

corresponding sides are in the same ratio

Answer 4

first you need to identify the corresponding sides

Answer 5

PML is five times bigget and the corresponding side to x is PM, which is 2o, so you divide that by five and get 4. x=4.

Answer 6

oh okay! thank yall!

Answer 7

x/20 = 2 / 10

Answer 8

I said 20/x, which equals 10/2

Answer 9

yes - both equations give the correct answer

Answer 10

True, I should've thought about that.

Answer 11

are you clear about how the answer was obtained meg_72?

Answer 12

yes when I realized that PML was 2x larger

Answer 13

i mean 5