These observations can help explain why one figure is not a scaled copy of another.
For example, even though their corresponding angles have the same measure, the second
rectangle is not a scaled copy of the first rectangle, because different pairs of
corresponding lengths have different scale factors, 2 = 1 but 3
2
= 2.
2
2
3
1
ma
2
.
Unit 1 Lesson 4 Cumulative Practice Problems
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totoments that must be true for any scaled copy Q of Polygon P.