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Property of Similar Triangles
The Property of Similar Triangles specializes the definition of similar figures to triangles. If is similar to , with each side labeled by the lowercase letter matching its opposite vertex (side opposite , side opposite , side opposite ; side opposite , side opposite , side opposite ), then two conditions hold:
- All corresponding angle measures are equal: , , and .
- All corresponding side lengths form equal ratios:
Because every pair of corresponding sides shares the same ratio, knowing three sides of one triangle and one side of the other is sufficient to determine the remaining unknown sides by setting up and solving a proportion.
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