Geometry Lesson 34

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Ratio, Proportion and Triangle Midsegments Class Work

(1) Which pair of numbers is out of place? Explain why you chose that pair. (a) 3 and 4 (b) 5 and 6 (c) 9 and 12 (d) 27 and 36

(2) Which pair of numbers is out of place? Explain why you chose that pair. (a) 9 and 12 (b) 12 and 15 (c) 20 and 25 (d) 32 and 40

(3) You got a part-time job at The Pizza Hub. You just found out that your co-worker makes more money. Which statement would make you angrier? Why? (a) Your coworker makes $10 more than you. (b) Your coworker makes double what you make.

Ratio and Proportion: Exercise 1: Definitions (1) Youve heard these two words before. Give me what you know- a definition, an example, a picture.

(2) Consider the table below Ratio Dave can eat three times more than me. Proportion Dave works twice as hard as I do, so when I work for 3 Neither Dave is 5 years younger than me, so when Im 95, hell be

hours, he works for 6 hours. 90. Based on the table above, can you explain the difference between ratio and proportion? Try.

(3) Lets come up with some formal definitions. Ratio and Proportion Definitions

Ratio Notation: A ratio is expressed normally in two different ways

(1) : is read as the ratio of to (2)

is also read as the ratio of to or is talked about just as we talk about

fractions. (3) In real life, we often read as, for every somethings, there are somethings. Informal definition of Ratio: conveying a relationship between two numbers as a fraction. Because its fraction, the numerator and denominator can be multiplied or divided by

the same number to produce a new ratio equivalent to the first.

= (4) Lets play with these definitions! Suppose the ratio of coffee drinkers to non -coffee drinkers is .

a. This says that for every 10____________________ there are 4 ______________________. b. Use multiplication or division to come up with two more ratios.

c. Write three proportions using the original ratio and new ones you came up with.

d. Suppose there are 100 coffee drinkers in the building right now. How many non-coffee

drinkers must there also be?

e. Suppose there are 168 people total. How many of them are coffee drinkers?

(5) Identify which two figures are proportional and explain why using the definitions presented above.

Exercise 2: So what seems to make figures proportional? Suppose youre trying to perfect your shrink ray. Heres how you want it to work You decide to try it out on Mario (you had a previous project where you invented a way to make video game characters come to life). This is what happened.

6 ft

3 ft

4 ft 4 ft

(1) Why does your new shrunken Mario look weird?

(2) What adjustment needs to be made to the shrink-ray to make shrunken Mario look right again?

(3) Write the ratio of big Marios height to big Marios width. Then write the ratio of small Marios height to small Marios width.

(4) Do these two ratios form a proportion?

(5) Write the ratio of what you think small Marios height to width should be to make him look not so squashed.

(6) Does this ratio form a proportion with big Marios ratio of height to width? Exercise 3: It WORKED! (1) There are a BUNCH of different ratios in the figure. (Remember, a ratio is just comparing two numbers that have some relationship to each other and writing them as a fraction.) Write down as many ratios as you can.

3 ft 6 ft 2 ft

4 ft

(2) Look at your list of ratios above. Find pairs of ratios that are proportions.

Exercise 4: The Math Why did so many proportions work out? Lets play with this mathematically. Let big Mario be represented with a , small Mario be represented with an . Let height. (1) We saw that the proportion = was true. Multiply both sides by and reduce. Is this new proportion one of the proportions we found to be true? stand for width and stand for

(2) Take the proportion

. Multiply both sides by

and reduce. Is this new proportion

one of the proportions we found to be true?

(3) Generalize: If you have the proportion

what two other proportions hold true?