SOLUTION: I have 2 parallelograms that one of them i says 3cm going up and 5cm going horizontal. And the other has 18cm going up and i have to find the value of x that is going horizontal..

Question 666354: I have 2 parallelograms that one of them i says 3cm going up and 5cm going horizontal. And the other has 18cm going up and i have to find the value of x that is going horizontal......Can you help me?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
given:
parallelograms
one of them has and
the other has and to find
since sides going and , we have rectangles and
we know that not all rectangles are similar (if the proportions are different, they are not similar)
but in this case, we assume they similar; so, their sides are proportional
then we have:

......cross multiply

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