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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION V
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SORSOGON CITY

ACTIVITY SHEET IN MATHEMATICS

Grade: 9 Week: 6 Quarter : 3

I. Objectives:
The learner illustrates similarity of figures.
LC Code: M9GE-IIIg-1

II. Presentation of the Lesson

Two polygons are similar if their vertices can be paired so that corresponding
angles are congruent and corresponding sides are proportional.

Curved marks can be used to indicate proportionality of corresponding sides of

figures such as shown in parallelograms KYUT and CARE below:

Consider the similar polygons KYUT and CARE (KYUT ~ CARE). Notice that by
pairing their corresponding vertices, corresponding angles coincide perfectly. It
can be observed also that corresponding angles are congruent.

Since the ratios of all the corresponding sides of similar polygons KYUT and CARE
are equal, it means that they have uniform proportionality of sides. That is, all
the corresponding sides are proportional to each other.

The number that describes the ratio of two corresponding sides of similar polygons
such as polygons KYUT and CARE is referred to as the scale factor. This scale

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 factor is true to all the rest of the corresponding sides of similar polygons because
of the uniformity of the proportionality of their sides.

Given below is the lengths of their sides in the figure, and their proportional sides
on the table

Proportional side

𝑇𝑈 10
The given ratio of the corresponding sides with given length is 𝑜𝑟 . Thus,
𝐸𝑅 24
5
the simplified form of the scale factor is .
12

• Solve for KT , KY and UY by equating the ratio of corresponding sides

containing KT with the scale factor k?

𝐾𝑇 5 5(15) 75 𝟐𝟓
= → 12(𝐾𝑇) = 5(15) → 𝑲𝑻 = = =
15 12 12 12 𝟒

𝐾𝑌 5 5(16) 80 𝟐𝟓
= → 12(𝐾𝑌) = 5(16) → 𝑲𝒀 = = =
16 12 12 12 𝟑

𝑈𝑌 5 5(12) 60
= → 12(𝑈𝑌) = 5(12) → 𝑼𝒀 = = =𝟓
12 12 12 12

Trapezoid CARE and KYUT, although having same shape, differ in size, hence
they are not congruent, only similar. Remember that the two characteristics of
a similar polygons are corresponding angles are congruent and corresponding
sides are proportional.

III. Practice Task

Answer the following questions given the figure below.

O 15cm V
H 10cm O
8cm 8cm x x

E P L E
14cm y

1. Determine the corresponding sides and the corresponding angles of the

given figure below.

2. What must be the value of x and y in order for the figures to be similar?

IV. Evaluation
20 in
L M
15 in
Q R
12in
x

T S O N

1. Solve for x.

2. What make the figures above similar?

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