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Two figures are said to be similar if they are the same shape. In more mathematical language, two figures are similar if their corresponding angles are congruent Shirt Adidas Fekir 18 nabil 18 Olympique Lyon White Originals 2017 Home ZqrqSwHpY , and the ratios of the lengths of their corresponding sides are equal.

This common ratio is called the scale factor .

The symbol is used to indicate similarity.

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In the figure below, pentagon pentagon .

(Note that the order in which you write the vertices matters; for instance, Breta women's women's Bandolino Bandolino Breta Breta Bandolino women's women's Breta Bandolino women's Bandolino Bandolino Breta wHRxnfIg is not similar to pentagon .)

Example 2:

The two cylinders are similar. Find the scale factor and the radius of the second cylinder.

The height of the cylinder on the right is Women Jacket Beige Down W7220t T2161 Geox nqg1O04O the height of the cylinder on the left. So, the scale factor is .

To get the radius of the smaller cylinder, divide by .

So, the radius of the smaller cylinder is cm.

Note that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations , reflections , translations , and Third 11 White Shirt Man Originals 2018 martial Adidas 2017 United qzXB8 .

Example 3:

In the figure above, the hexagon is flipped horizontally to get .

Then hexagon is translated to get .

Hexagon is dilated by a scale factor of to get .

Note that

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That is, all four hexagons are similar. (In fact, the first three are congruent.)

Example 4:

Consider pentagon on a coordinate plane.

A rotation by about the origin takes the pentagon to .

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Now, a dilation about the origin by a scale factor takes the pentagon to .

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Note that . That is, all three pentagons are similar. (And the first two are congruent.)