Question

Triangle ABC is a scaled copy of triangle DEF. Side AB measures 12

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The scale factor here is 1.5

2. The scale factor here is 2/3

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we shall be dealing with scales of triangles.

we have two triangles;

ABC and DEF

longest sides are in the ratio;

12 : 8

1. What scale factor translates DEF to ABC?

The ratio of the length can be beaten down to 3:2

So therefore, we can see that by multiplying the sides of of DEF by 1.5, we can arrive at the sides of ABC

So the scale factor here is 1.5

2. This is like the other way round of what we have above.

By multiplying the sides of ABC by 2/3, we shall have the sides of DEF