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What is the scale factor used to create this dilation?

What is the scale factor used to create this dilation?-example-1
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The answer is: -1/5 or -0.2

One side of the original triangle is 15 units long and the side of the equivalent side of the dilated triangle is 3 units long. Therefore the magnitude of the enlargement scale factor is 3/15 or 1/5;

The answer is -1/5 as the transformation resulted in an inversion as well as an enlargement/dilation, therefore the answer is negative.

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