Question

Look at the picture and answer the following questions :

1. Name some things from your daily life that look like triangles.

2. What are the types of triangles can see in the picture?

3. Do you think all triangles shown are similar with their properties? What are they?

Answer 1

1. Samosa, chapathi, window elevations, house tops, bridge trusses, floor tessellations.

2. Right triangles, Equilateral triangles.

3. Yes. All right triangles are similar. All triangles are similar because they have 

(a) right angle 

(b) equal side and 

(c) equal hypotenuse.