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Similarity End-of-Unit Review


You may use your reference chart, a ruler, and a protractor.
1. Explain how we know that triangle ABC and triangle DEF are similar. What does this tell us
about the relationship between angle B and angle E?

What does that tell us about angle


D?

2. Lines BC and DE are parallel. What is the length of AD?


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3. Are triangles ADE and ABC similar? Explain why or why not.

4. Triangle ABC is similar to triangle EFD.


What scale factor is required to dilate
triangle ABC so that its image, A′B′C′, is
congruent to triangle EFD?

5. Find the length of DF. Show or explain your reasoning.


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6.
a. Dilate triangle ABC using center P
3
and scale factor of 2

b. What do the properties of


dilations tell you about angle B′?

7. Segment A’B’ is parallel to segment AB.


What is the length of segment BB’?

8. Here is a rectangle with some right


triangles inside it.

a. Which triangles are similar to triangle AED? Explain or show your reasoning.

b. The length of segment EF is 8 units and the length of segment ED is 10 units.


Find the length of segment FA. Explain or show your reasoning.
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9. Describe a sequence of transformations AC = 6


that would show that triangles ABC and
AED are similar. The length of AC is 6
units.

10. Triangles ABC and DFE are similar


a. How do we know they are similar?

b. Solve for the length of EF


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11. Which pair of polygons is similar?

A.

B.

C.

D.
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13. Decide whether triangles ABC and DEC
are similar. Explain or show your
reasoning.

14. Dilate ABC using center E and a scale factor of


1
.
4

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