standard_description: Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations:
- Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length.
- Angles are taken to angles of the same measure.
- Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.
problem_activity: In the following figure,
$${\overline{AE}}$$
and
$${\overline{BD}}$$
are segments.
[IMG]
a) Show that
$${{{{\triangle ABC}}}}$$
and
$${{{{\triangle CDE}}}}$$
are similar.
b) What is the scale factor of similarity transformation that takes
$${{{{\triangle ABC}}}}$$
to
$${{{{\triangle CDE}}}}$$
?
c) What is the value of the ratio of the area of
$${{{{\triangle ABC}}}}$$
to the area of
$${{{{\triangle CDE}}}}$$
? Explain how you know.
d) If the area of
$${{{{\triangle ABC}}}}$$
is
$${30\space \mathrm{cm^2}}$$
, what is the area of
$${{{{\triangle CDE}}}}$$
?


aligns: no