Question

help with crazy slopes

Answer 1

Check corresponding angles
For example is m<BCD = m < IJK?

Answer 2

If not then the 2 figures are not similar.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Look at sides BC and IJ. Do these 2 sides seem to have the same slope?

True, no numbers, but the two figures are plotted on a grid, and you can determine the length of these sides by counting the number of units on the grid.

Answer 5

You can see that they are not equal by checking them against the grid in the background

Answer 6

To get from B to C, you go 2 units to the right and one unit up.

But to get from I to J, you go 1 unit to the right and 1 unit up.

Thus, the slopes of those 2 line segments are different.

Answer 7

Yes the slopes are different so the angles are different.

Answer 8

yw

Answer 9

Happy to be of help.