The sides of a triangle are 5, 6 and 10. How do you find the length of the longest side of a similar triangle whose shortest side is 15?
1 Answer
Dec 15, 2016
See explanation.
Explanation:
If two figures are simmilar, the quotients of lengths of respective sides are equal to scale of similarity.
Here if the shortest side is
So the simmilar triangle has sides of lengths:
Finally we can write answer:
The longest side of the second triangle is