Drove 50 km on 6 L of gasoline. Which proportion would help determine how far she can travel on a full 40 L tank of gasoline?
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Solution:
we are given that ΔABC and ΔXYZ are similar triangles.
As we know , when two triangles are similar then the ratios of their corrsponding sides are equal.
Here we have
BA = x + 9, AC = x + 7, YX = x + 5, and XZ = x + 4
So we can write
Hence then value of x=-1.