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Explain why the hypotenuses of the triangles below have the same slope.

Explain why the hypotenuses of the triangles below have the same slope.-example-1
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The hypotenuses are the same because they fall on the same line.
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They have the same slope because they are similar. The smaller one is 1/2 the size of the bigger one and they have a ratio of 1:2 which makes them similar.
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