DETERMINE WHETHER THE PAIR OF FIGURES IS SIMILAR WORKSHEET

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A 20 cm wide picture frame surrounds a painting which is 100 cm by 60 cm. Are the two rectangles shown here similar?

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Give brief reasons why these figures possess similar triangles:

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At 4 pm one day the shadow of a pine tree was 5 m long. At the same time a 2 m long broom handle had a shadow which was 3 m long. How high is the pine tree?

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After establishing similarity, find the unknowns in:

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Find x given that the figures are similar :

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