Question

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The ABC Toy Company is creating two similar pieces for a board game, as shown below. Find the value of b that makes the two pieces similar.

Answer 1

@aaronq

Answer 2

@myininaya

Answer 3

what defines similarity?

Answer 4

angles?

Answer 5

angles could, but i was thinking more along of the information provided ... side lenghts

Answer 6

\[A\approx B~~if~~B=nA\]

Answer 7

so if we take all the sides of the little one

3,4,a

and multiply them by same value n:

3n,4n,an

they will need to equal the corresponding sides of the big one

9,b,c

Answer 8

compare side

3n = 9
4n = b

when we know n, we can determine b

Answer 9

so we get N by itself?

Answer 10

using 3n=9, yes we can solve for n

Answer 11

n=3

Answer 12

good, then b = 4(3)

Answer 13

12?