Question

A square has a side length of 14 inches. This square is dilated by a scale factor of 3/5 to create a new square. What is the side length of the new square?

Answer 1

the new side length would be about 23 inches

Answer 2

8.4 in

Explanation:

When you dilate a shape, you multiply each side by the scale factor.

If the shape is a square with a side length of 14 in, the length of a side of the dilated image is

original length × scale factor = 14 in × ⅗ = 8.4 in