Stage 16 · Quadrilaterals & Polygons

16.6.4 Paving the Way for Similarity: Invariants Under Scaling

16.6 Proof by Contradiction and Reasoning in Geometry

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16.6.4 Paving the Way for Similarity: Invariants Under Scaling

Core idea

Enlarge or shrink a whole figure and parallels stay parallel, angles stay the same; this is exactly the doorway to our next stop, similarity

Module goal. Build on all the earlier proofs to distill a new tool of argument, proof by contradiction, and close out this stage with it, laying groundwork for the trickier reasoning in similarity
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