Question

Tell me wheter this is SSS, SAS, AA, or not similar. Is it SSS or SSS and SAS?

Answer 1

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To check if the triangles are similar, let us take ratios of corresponding sides on both triangles, if they are the same, they are similar, else they are not.

We have:

`(PM)/(XP)=(9)/(12)=(3)/(4)`

We also have for triangle ALW

`(LW)/(AW)=(12)/(16)=(3)/(4)`

We see that the sides share the same ratios, so the two triangles are similar under the similarity relation

`\begin{gathered} \text{Side angle side similarity (SAS)}\ \\ \text{Sise side side similarity (SSS)} \end{gathered}`