Mathematics GCSE
Similar figures
What Similar figures means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Similar figures
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Reference: AQA
Figures that have equal corresponding angles and corresponding lengths in a constant ratio called the scale factor.
Topics that use Similar figures
- Mensuration and calculation (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Accurate substitution and rearrangement
- arc length
- Area = ½ab sin C
- Circumference
- composite shapes
- Corresponding vertices and sides
- Diameter
- Frustum
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