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Similarity, SMB-011

Kransky has a photo which is 25 cm wide and 10 cm high

He wants to enlarge it to make a poster with a width of 50 cm.

What will be the height of the poster?   (2 marks)

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`text(20 cm)`

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`text(Scale factor)` `= text(new width)/text(old width)`
  `= 50/25`
  `= 2`

 

`:.\ text(New height)` `= 2 xx 10`
  `= 20\ text(cm)`

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