How to find if rhombuses are similar - Math

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Given: Rhombuses and .

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True, false, or undetermined: Rhombus Rhombus .

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Two figures are similar by definition if all of their corresponding sides are proportional and all of their corresponding angles are congruent.

By definition, a rhombus has four sides that are congruent. If we let be the common sidelength of Rhombus and be the common sidelength of Rhombus , it can easily be seen that the ratio of the length of each side of the former to that of the latter is the same ratio, namely, .

Also, a rhombus being a parallelogram, its opposite angles are congruent, and its consecutive angles are supplementary. Therefore, since , it follows that , and . By a similar argument, and . Therefore,

Since all corresponding sides are proportional and all corresponding angles are congruent, it holds that Rhombus Rhombus .

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