SOLUTION: Corresponding triangles: the larger one has a side of 4yd and the smaller one a side of 1 yd. What is the perimeter of the larger triangle and P2=5yd. What is P1? 4/1=P1/5 thi

Question 1183707: Corresponding triangles: the larger one has a side of 4yd and the smaller one a side of 1 yd. What is the perimeter of the larger triangle and P2=5yd.
What is P1?
4/1=P1/5 this can't be right?

Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Sloppy presentation of the given information; it's not clearly stated whether P1 is the perimeter of the smaller triangle and P2 the perimeter of the larger, or the other way around.

It's also not clearly stated whether the sides of lengths 4yd in one triangle and 1yd in the other are corresponding sides.

The larger triangle with one side length 4yd can't have a perimeter of 5yd; so we know the 5yd is the perimeter of the smaller triangle.

Then, assuming the sides of lengths 4yd and 1yd are in fact corresponding sides, the ratio of the perimeters is the same as the ratio of the lengths of corresponding sides, so the perimeter of the larger triangle is 4*5yd = 20yd.

ANSWER: 20 yards

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