Question

Salma used a photocopier to dilate the design for a monorail track system. The figure below shows the design and its photocopy:The ratio of AD:EH is 1:2. What is the length, in meters, of side GH on the photocopied image?

Answer 1

`GH=\text{ 34 square meters}`

Explanation:

Since the ratio of AD:EH is 1:2 and these are similar polygons. We assume that line GH would have the same ratio as DC:

`\begin{gathered} \text{ Given ratio: 1:2} \\ GH=17\cdot2 \\ GH=\text{ 34 square meters} \end{gathered}`