P T K L R x Two sides of ΔPRT are extended to create a similar triangle, ΔPLK, as shown. If x represents the length of segment LK, then What is the value of x? Bell Ringer 3/24

A = b*h = (4)(2) A = 8 A = b*h = (8)(4) A = 32 sq. units

What about the perimeter?? Our scale factor is 2. P = P = 12 P = P = 24

Understand that the ratio between the area of a polygon and the area of a copy of that polygon scaled by the factor of r will be r 2 Main Idea

In Class Work/ Homework Page 341 #1,2,6,7,8

He needed only 2 bags of seed for the small field.

6. The area of the scaled copy is 25 times the area of the original in C  65 cm 2