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Which of the following proportions verifies that ABC and XYZ are similar?

Which of the following proportions verifies that ABC and XYZ are similar?-example-1
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They need to satisfy:


\begin{gathered} AB\propto XY \\ AC\propto XZ \\ BC\propto YZ \end{gathered}

Therefore:


(AB)/(XY)=(AC)/(XZ)\Leftrightarrow(AB)/(AC)=(XY)/(XZ)

Answer:

A

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