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Are these triangles similar?

Are these triangles similar?-example-1
User Deathlock
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ΔSTU ~ ΔVWX
⁶/₁₂ = ¹²/₂₄
¹/₂ = ¹/₂

These triangles are similar.
User Robert Langdon
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Nope. They are not similar.

Only UT and XW are proportional, while the others are not. You know this by 12 times 2 = 24, which is XW to UT.
User Paul Brannan
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