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Obviously, the two quadrilaterals are not congruent, but they appear related in a certain way. We would like to say that they have a “similar” shape. How can we describe the way we can obtain one of these quadrilaterals from the other?
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Lang, S., Murrow, G. (1983). Dilations and Similarities. In: Geometry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1797-6_8
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