Answer: I can use variables to represent the coordinates of the vertices for a general triangle ABC. then I can calculate the midpoints of the sides in terms of the same variables, and calculate the slope of each midsegment showing that the expression for the slope of a midsegment is the same as the expression for the slope of the third side of the triangle proves that the two are parallel.
Step-by-step explanation: this is word for word btw!
Answer: I can use variables to represent the coordinates of the vertices for a general triangle ABC. then I can calculate the midpoints of the sides in terms of the same variables, and calculate the slope of each midsegment showing that the expression for the slope of a midsegment is the same as the expression for the slope of the third side of the triangle proves that the two are parallel.
Step-by-step explanation: this is word for word btw!
The area of the enlarged triangle is times the original area
Step-by-step explanation:
we know that
The scale factor is equal to divide the measurement of the length side of the enlarged triangle by the the measurement of the length of the corresponding side of the original triangle
In his problem
Let
x------> the length side of the original triangle
so
2x-----> is the length of the corresponding side of the enlarged triangle
-------> that means is increasing
The scale factor squared is equal to the ratio of the area of the enlarged triangle divided by the area of the original triangle
so
Let
m-------> the area of the enlarged triangle
n------> the area of the original triangle
r-------> scale factor
we have
substitute
therefore
The area of the enlarged triangle is times the original area