NRICH: Shear Magic

Shearing is a transformation of a shape in which a particular line (in this case the base of the triangle or parallelogram) remains fixed and all other points in the shape are translated parallel to that line by an amount proportional to the distance from that line.

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NRICH - Shear Magic

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