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Which transformations will produce similar, but not congruent, figure

Which transformations will produce similar, but not congruent, figure-example-1

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Rotations, translations and reflections are transformations that preserve areas, so they always produce congruent figures.

So, the only way you have to produce a similar but not congruent figure is to use dilation with a scale different than 1.

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