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Similar scalene triangles are drawn on a coordinate plane. One triangle has side lengths of 1, 4, and 6. The other triangle has side lengths of 3 and 12, corresponding to the first triangle. Use the SSS criterion to determine the third side length of the corresponding triangle.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
If the triangles are similar, all corresponding side ratios are equal. The only way the two given ratios match is 3/1 = 12/4 = 3, so the scale factor is 3. Thus the third side is 6·3 = 18.