Congruence and similarity

• congruent figures and similar figures

• properties of similar triangles and polygons:

- corresponding angles are equal

- corresponding sides are proportional

• enlargement and reduction of a plane figure

• scale drawings

• properties and construction of perpendicular bisectors of line segments and angle bisectors

• determining whether two triangles are

- congruent

- similar

• ratio of areas of similar plane figures

• ratio of volumes of similar solids

• solving simple problems involving similarity and congruence

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