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Figure A is a triangle with side lengths 4 cm, 6 cm, and 8 cm. Figure B is a triangle with side lengths 6 cm, 9 cm, and 12 cm. Which statement best explains whether the figures are similar. A. They are not similar because rotations cannot change side lengths. B. They are similar because a dilation with scale factor 3/2 maps Figure A onto Figure B. C. They are similar because all corresponding angles are right angles. D. They are not similar because the side lengths are different.

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B. The side lengths of Figure B are each 3/2 times the corresponding sides of Figure A (4·3/2=6, 6·3/2=9, 8·3/2=12), so a dilation by 3/2 maps A to B and the triangles are similar.