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Similar shapes & transformations


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·Nov 10, 2024

  • [Instructor] We are told that Shui concluded the quadrilaterals, these two over here, have four pairs of congruent corresponding angles. We can see these right over there. And so, based on that, she concludes that the figures are similar. What error, if any, did Shui make in her conclusion? Pause this video and try to figure this out on your own.

All right, so let's just remind ourselves one definition of similarity that we often use in geometry class, and that's two figures are similar if you can, through a series of rigid transformations and dilations, map one figure onto the other. Now, when I look at these two figures, you could try to do something.

You could say, okay, let me shift it so that K gets mapped onto H. And if you did that, it looks like L would get mapped onto G. But these sides KN and LM right over here, they seem a good bit longer. So, and then if you try to dilate it down so that the length of KN is the same as the length of HI, well then the lengths of KL and GH would be different. So, it doesn't seem like you could do this.

So it is strange that Shui concluded that they are similar. So let's find the mistake. I'm already, I'll already rule out C, that it's a correct conclusion 'cause I don't think they are similar. So let's see. Is the error that a rigid transformation, a translation, would map HG onto KL? Yep, we just talked about that.

HG can be mapped onto KL, so the quadrilaterals are congruent, not similar. Oh, choice A is making an even stronger statement because anything that is congruent is going to be similar. You actually can't have something that's congruent and not similar. And so, choice A does not make any sense.

So our deductive reasoning tells us it's probably choice B. But let's just read it. It's impossible to map quadrilateral GHIJ onto quadrilateral LKNM using only rigid transformations and dilations, so the figures are not similar. Yeah, that's right. You could try, you could map HG onto KL, but then segment IJ would look something like this: IJ would go right over here.

And then, if you tried to dilate it so that the length of HI and GJ matched KN or LM, then you're gonna make HG bigger as well. So, you're never gonna be able to map them onto each other even if you can use dilations. So, I like choice B.

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