Similar Triangles
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California Common Core State Standards - Mathematics
- HSG-SRT.B.4 Prove theorems about triangles.
- HSG-SRT.B.5 Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove relationships in geometric figures.
- HSG-SRT.A.2 Given two figures, use the definition of similarity in terms of similarity transformations to decide if they are similar; explain using similarity transformations the meaning of similarity for triangles as the equality of all corresponding pairs of angles and the proportionality of all corresponding pairs of sides.
Similar Triangles
By creating similar triangles, it is possible to find the distance across a river using indirect measurements.