What Are Similar Shapes?
Similar shapes have equivalent lengths and widths. Each corresponding angle is equal and each corresponding side is fractional. All sides have equivalent ratio. What is the name of the shapes below?
The shapes above are similar right-angle triangles. The image below shows compound shapes, "L" Shapes, that are all similar.
How Do You Find Similar Shapes ?
The question below shows two isosceles triangles. The missing side is x cm. The answer is 6.67 to two decmial places.
The question below is more advanced. The question contains similar triangles ADE and ABC. Side CB is equivalent to side DE. Side AB is equivalent to side AE. (5/2) = (6/x). The final answer is 2.4 cm.
Similar Shapes Worksheets – New & Engaging
For Congruence Cazoomy Worksheets try: Congruence Worksheets. For Area Of Triangles Cazoomy Worksheets try: Area of Triangles Worksheets. For Angles On Parallel Lines Cazoomy Worksheets try: Angles on Parallel Lines Worksheets.