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Please help I’m not sure what it is don’t make fun I’m not good at math

Please help I’m not sure what it is don’t make fun I’m not good at math-example-1
User Breeden
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Answer:

3.75 or 3
(3)/(4)

Explanation:

The first thing we can find is the scale factor of the two triangles. You can see that the corresponding sides AB and A'B' are 2 and 8 respectively, and since the two triangles are similar, you can say that triangle ABC is shrunk by a factor of 2/8 or 1/4.

Next, we need to figure out what side B'C' is and we can do this using the Pythagorean theorem
a^(2)+
b^(2) =
c^(2). Using this, we know that
8^(2)+

Now, since ABC is shrunk by 1/4 and the corresponding side of BC is equal to 15, we need to multiply 15 by 1/4 and you would find that BC is 3.75 or 3
(3)/(4).

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