What is the image of 2,10 after a dilation by a scale factor of 1/2 centered at the origin

Sra asked Apr 8, 2023

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Sra asked Apr 8, 2023

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A dilation is given by:

$(x,y)\rightarrow(kx.ky)$

where k is the scale factor.

In this case we have:

$(2,10)\rightarrow((1)/(2)\cdot2,(1)/(2)\cdot10)=(1,5)$

Therefore the image is the point:

Mike Sherov answered Apr 14, 2023

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