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Triangle Z is a scaled copy of Triangle M.

Select all the sets of values that could be the side lengths of Triangle Z.
a. 8, 11, and 14.
b. 10, 17.5, and 25.
C. 6, 9, and 11.
d. 6, 10.5, and 15.
e. 8, 14, and 20.

Triangle Z is a scaled copy of Triangle M. Select all the sets of values that could-example-1
User Darrel
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Answer:

actually it's B, E, and D. At least that's what I got and it said it was correct.

Explanation:

User Yosem
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Answer:

D and E are correct

Explanation:

Here, we want to select the set of values which could be the values of the sides of triangle z.

What we want here are sets of values which is a direct scale up value of the sets of values of triangle M:

We proceed as follows;

a. 8, 11 and 14.

This cannot be correct

Looking at the values of M, 4,7 and 10; We can see that while 4 and 7 are directly scaled up by factor 2 to give 8 and 14, by correspondence, 10 should be 20 and not 11 as in this case.

B. 10, 7.5 and 25

This cannot be correct too. Looking at the way 4 and 10

are scaled up by a value of 2.5; then the value of 7 should be scaled by 2.5 too, but 2.5 * 7 is not 7.5, so this cannot be correct

C. 6 , 9 and 11

This is not correct. In fact, we cannot identify a pattern between these numbers and their values before scaling up

D 6, 10.5 and 15

This looks correct. We can see that the values of triangle M if multiplied by 1.5 each can give these

4 * 1.5 = 6

7 * 1.5 = 10.5

and 10 * 1.5 = 15

e. 8, 14 and 20

Multiplying the sides of triangle M by 2, we can get these values.

4 * 2 = 8

7 * 2 = 14

and 10 * 2 = 20

The scale up value here is simply 2

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