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How would you find the scale factor in a dilation?

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Starting with ΔABC, draw the dilation image of the triangle with a center at the origin and a scale factor of two. Notice that every coordinate of the original triangle has been multiplied by the scale factor (x2). Dilation with scale factor 2, multiply by 2.
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