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Answer:

14.4

Explanation:

Because the figures are similar, they are basically the same figure. One is just dilated by a certain amount. To figure out the missing x, we need to find out exactly how much the small one is dilated from the bigger one.

Here's how we do that:

We know 9 and 5 are correlating sides because of where they are in relation to the right angle. We can find out how much smaller 5 is than 9 by dividing 9 by 5.

9 ÷ 5 = 1.8

This means that x is going to be bigger than 8 by a multiple of 1.8.

8 × 1.8 = x

14.4 = x

I hope this helped :)

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