Stage 17 · Similarity & Dilation

17.3.1 What Similar Triangles Are

17.3 Tests for Similar Triangles

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17.3.1 What Similar Triangles Are

Core idea

The same photo enlarged or shrunk keeps its angles and scales its sides together, written as triangle ABC ~ triangle A'B'C'.

Module goal. We introduce what similarity means, the same shape at possibly different sizes, then use the proportionality of parallel lines to derive a few handy tests, the central hub of this whole stage.
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