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Similar shapes Mark Scheme:

Similar shapes are enlargements of each other, i.e.

1(a) they have same angles, but all sides have changed [1]Scale factor used in explanation
by the same scale factor.

1(b) 𝐴𝐴 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐻𝐻 [1] Correct pair

𝐹𝐹 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐷𝐷 [1] Correct pair

𝐽𝐽 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐾𝐾 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐿𝐿 [1] Correct three

2 𝐴𝐴 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐹𝐹 [1] Correct pair

𝐵𝐵 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐸𝐸 [1] Correct pair

𝐶𝐶 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐷𝐷 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝐻𝐻 [1] Correct three

42
3(a) =3 [1]
14

3(b) 12 × 3 = 36 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 [1]

3(c) 51 ÷ 3 = 17 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 [1]

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4(a) = 1.5 [1]
12

4(b) 14 × 1.5 = 21 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 [1]

4(c) 𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴 ∶ 𝑋𝑋𝑋𝑋 = 1 ∶ 1.5 [1] Correct ratio

𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴 = 10 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 , 𝑋𝑋𝑋𝑋 = 15 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 [1] Correct answers

5(a) 2 [1]

𝑥𝑥 = 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 − 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 = 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶

5(b) [1] Correct BE
𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 = 4.4 × 2 = 8.8

𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷 = 𝑦𝑦 = 5 × 2 = 10 [1] Correct DE

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6(a) =3 [1]
16

6(b) 32 = 9 [1] Scale factor for area

[1] Alternative methods available. 2 marks

9 × 24 = 216 𝑐𝑐𝑚𝑚2
for correct answer via any method.

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𝐻𝐻 𝐾𝐾 20 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 𝑀𝑀

𝑥𝑥 𝑥𝑥

𝐼𝐼 5 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 𝐽𝐽 𝐿𝐿

𝑥𝑥 20
7 = [1] Setting the unknown sides to a letter
5 𝑥𝑥

𝑥𝑥 2 = 100 𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 𝑥𝑥 = 10 [1] Calculation of unknown

20
= 2 ∴ 𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 = 2 [1] Proof of answer
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