How can you use similar triangles to find a missing measurement?

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Mathematics

Colton Bullock

6 July, 15:27

How can you use similar triangles to find a missing measurement?

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Duncan Guzman · Answer 1

By comparison of the sides.

Step-by-step explanation:

If triangles are similar, that means their angles are equal and sides are proportional.

If you already have a proportion of two corresponding sides between triangles, then use that proportion and set it equal to a side you already know the measurement to. Hopefully that side is corresponding to your missing measurement, and you can then solve it.