Question

please respond ASAP!!!! in the diagram below, AC is parallel to DF is parallel to BH and CB is parallel to FE. (look at image) a. Find four similar triangles. Explain how you know that they are all similar. b. Using the similar triangles you found in part (a), complete the following extended proportion (look at image)

Answer 1

SImilar triangles are: ABC, DBG, DEF, and BEH.

Explanation:

There are clealy four well defined triangles in the image:

ABC, DBG, DEF, and BEH.

Given the parallelism of the mentioned lines, one can conclude that when those lines parallel to different sides of the triangle ABC for example (to sides AC and CB), intersect, they will also intersect giving similar angles . That is: angle ACB must equal angle DGB, angle DFE, and angle BHE. Apart from that, the angles around the bases of all four triangles must be equal since they come from parallel lines. That is:

(1) angles BAC, BDG, BDF, and EBH must be equal to each other, and

2) angles ABC, DBG, DEF, and BEH must be equal to each other.

Therefore we have four triangles with congruent angles, which make them similar triangles.