What Is The Value Of X?

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Elviss Strazdins · Answer 1 · 2020-07-11T15:10:02+0000

Answer: 7 cm

Explanation:

You know the lenght of one of the sides of the smaller triangle.

You also know the lengths of two sides of the larger triangle.

You can see that a corresponding angle is equal

Therefore, by similarity, you can write the expression shown below:

(36cm)/(42cm)=(6cm)/(x)

Now you must solve for x.

Therefore, you obtain that the value of x is the shown below:

$x((36cm)/(42cm))=6cm\\\\x=(6cm*42cm)/(36cm)\\\\x=7cm$