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A triangle is to be dilated with a scale factor of 3.6. If a side of the original triangle is 8, what is the measure of a side of the new triangle?

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what you want to do in dilation is multiply the side(s) by the scal factor to get the measurements of the new shape. in this case multiply 8 by 3.6 to get the new side length of 28.8
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