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OpenStudy (anonymous):

HELP I WILL FA AND MEDAL

OpenStudy (anonymous):

QUESTIONS ARE THERE NUMBER 4

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@BSwan @ikatouni @JayBaybie @jessicaman2 @joshhfers @kirbykirby @mechanicalanimal_ @shamim @texaschic101 @thushananth01 @WinryRockbell

OpenStudy (anonymous):

is number 4 B

OpenStudy (paki):

how it's 20...? can you explain this...?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ummmmmm ?

OpenStudy (paki):

yeah...

OpenStudy (anonymous):

can you help me

OpenStudy (paki):

i don't know about this question.... i am serious....?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what

OpenStudy (paki):

i am saying to explain this answer to us...

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@hartnn @beccaboo333 @mathmale @mathmate

OpenStudy (mathmate):

the sign ~ means the two quadrilaterals are similar.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OK

OpenStudy (anonymous):

you're wanting the answer to number 4, right?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yea

OpenStudy (mathmate):

Can you solve 3:9 = 5:?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay, well they're parallelograms. you can see that side OP is 3, and side UV is 9. this means that the sides of the rectangle STUV are equal to the sides of rectangle MNOP multiplied by 3.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

side SV and TU are 15.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i never did that @mathmate

OpenStudy (mathmate):

Proportions. Sometimes it's written as: x/5=9/3

OpenStudy (anonymous):

3

OpenStudy (mathmate):

Well, 3/5 does not equal 9/3. By cross multiplying, we get 3x=9*5, and eventually x=9*5/3=15, as mech had it.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@mathmate explained it really well. it's a really simple thing, you're just getting confused. lol

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i dont nothing that you just said i have not learned that yet it looks hard

OpenStudy (anonymous):

just look at the two parallelograms. it's obvious that rectangle STUV is three times as big as MNOP. so just multiply the sides of MNOP by 3 to get the sides of STUV.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

5 * 3 = 15. TU = 15. the answer is c.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

y did i get 27 from M3* N3 *O3 *P3= 27

OpenStudy (anonymous):

because you're not multiplying 3 * 4. xD you're just multiplying side MP by 3.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

do you get it, or are you still confused?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

confused?

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