Stage 17 · Similarity & Dilation

17.1.1 A Look Back at Ratio and Proportion

17.1 From Ratios to Proportional Segments

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17.1.1 A Look Back at Ratio and Proportion

Core idea

Which cup of sugar water is sweeter comes down to the ratio of sugar parts to water parts, a:b.

Module goal. Picking up the parallel lines and congruence from quadrilaterals, we carry the idea of a 'ratio' between numbers over to the lengths of line segments, building the language of proportional segments that lays the foundation for everything about similarity to come.
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