2. Place a point P anywhere on the sheet.
3. Draw Lines from P through each vertex.
4. Place Point A' twice as far from point P as A is from P. Repeat for all the points.
5. What do you notice?
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Two
shapes are similar if all their corresponding angles are congruent and
their corresponding sides are proportional.
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| "Proportional" means that there is a multiplicative relationship between the sides - that is to say that multiplying one side by x always leads you to the length of the corresponding side. In this case x = 2. Notice that AB = 2.5cm and A'B' = 5cm. |
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| It doesn't matter where you placed the point P. Maryam placed it somewhere inside the triangle. |
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