standard_description: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations; given two congruent figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the congruence between them.
problem_activity: Samuel is at the top of a tower and will ride a trolley down a zip line to a lower tower. The total vertical drop of the zip line is 40 feet. The zip line’s angle of elevation from the lower tower is 11.5°. Sam’s friend is not going to zip-line but wants to walk along the ground from the tall tower to the lower tower. How far will Sam’s friend walk to meet him?


aligns: no