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Prove that the ratio of the areas of two similar triangles is equal to the square of the ratio of their corresponding medians.

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`\triangle {ABC} \sim \triangle {DEF}`
`{O}` is a median of `{BC}` and `{P}` is a median of `{EF}`
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