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A regular pentagon with a perimeter of 28 inches is dilated by a scale factor of 8/7 to create a new pentagon. What is the perimeter of the new pentagon?

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The answer is 32 hope this helps :)

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A regular pentagon with a perimeter of 28 inches is dilated by a scale factor of 8/7 to-example-1
User Sergej Fomin
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The new perimeter is 32 inches. You multiply the scale factor (8/7) by the original perimeter (28) which gives the answer of 32.
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