Perimeters and Areas of Similar Polygons
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- L Sliver, Rasha Tarek
If the scale factor from WXYZ to ABCD is 2, a. What is the ratio of their perimeters (from WXYZ to ABCD)? b. What is the ratio of their areas (from WXYZ to ABCD)?
If the scale factor from WXYZ to ABCD is 3, a. What is the ratio of their perimeters (from WXYZ to ABCD)? b. What is the ratio of their areas (from WXYZ to ABCD)?
If the scale factor from WXYZ to ABCD is , a. What is the ratio of their perimeters (from WXYZ to ABCD)? b. What is the ratio of their areas (from WXYZ to ABCD)?
Make a conjecture (conclusion drawn from observation) about the relationship between the scale factor of two similar polygons and a. the ratio of their perimeters b the ratio of their areas Write your answers in complete sentence form.