Question

Triangles QVS and RTS are similar. Find side VS.


Now I don't have an answer because I have no idea how to solve this one. Someone help me please? xD

Answer 1

x/28=26/10

Answer 2

I got 72.8

Answer 3

Which doesn't seem to be correct... I don't know xD

Answer 4

why do you think it is incorrect ?

Answer 5

I'm getting x = 72.8 as well. It's certainly possible to have a length with a decimal number (and not a whole number).

Answer 6

Because the length from T-S is 28, and the extra length is V-T. Yet the length from V-T "looks" smaller than T-S, and so I just thought that if the length was abt 10, it would add up to about 40. Sorry it's just my weird sense xD

Answer 7

They want V to S. So that's the entire horizontal length of the larger triangle.

Answer 8

Those triangles arent to scale at all... look at length 10 vs 26
The answer is reasonable.

Answer 9

and yeah, the 26 length should be more than double that of the 10 length

Answer 10

I guess your right DanJS. Thanks for helping me everyone!! I got more to come ><

Answer 11

I wanna give you all a medal but I can't o.O

Answer 12

I see you have a very good intuition for geometry shapes :)
but your teacher is kinda trying to trick you by giving that weird diagram

Answer 13

ahaha I see.

Answer 14

never sketch a diagram like that when you work on word problems
it is easy to make mistakes if you start with a messy diagram