Question

Two similar triangles have perimeters of 45 cm and 75 cm respectively. What scale factor would relate these two triangles?

Answer 1

1 2/3

Explanation:

Well we divide 75 by 45 which is 1.6 repeating and that as a fraction is 1 2/3.

Thus,

the scale factor that relates the 2 triangles is 1 2/3.

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