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What is the image of (-1,-5) after a dilation by a scale factor of 5 centered at the
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What is the image of (-1,-5) after a dilation by a scale factor of 5 centered at the-example-1
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A dilation by a scale factor of 5 centered at the origin simply multplies by 5 the coordinates of every point. So, the new coordinates are (-5, -25)

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