## anonymous one year ago Triangles MOP and MNQ are similar. Find x.

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so it's pretty much asking u to find QP

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which is part of MP

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so now u need to find MP first and subtract MQ (whic is 15) from it to get x

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MN + NO= 17

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$\frac{ MQ }{ MN} = \frac{ MO }{ MP}$

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soooo now we just need to plug in the values

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15/12 =5/x ? right?

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$\frac{ 15 }{ 12}= \frac{ 17 }{ MP }$

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we're not looking for x yet, we'll get x after we find MP

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sorry I meant to put QP

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MP= 13.6

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so 15/12 =17/13.6

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hmmm something doesn't look right, wait

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do u have 6.25 in the answer choices?

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I have to type it in!

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alright i made a mistake and that is instead of 17/MP is should be MP/17

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and that gives us 21.25 for MP

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so now we subtract MQ from that to get x

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and we end up with 6.25 as the answer :)

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thank you!! :)

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