Matter of Scale
The red triangle is an enlargement of the original by a scale factor of $a$. The lengths of its sides are marked on.
Can you mark on the lengths of the blue triangle?
Which sides match together to make a larger triangle?
What can you say about the angles of the resulting triangle when the red and blue triangle are put together?
What is the scale factor of enlargement from the original triangle to the last triangle?
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