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The owner of a restaurant wants to move the restaurant from Braddock Avenue to a new location onKnox Avenue that has more foot traffic. The owner would also like to double the perimeter of therestaurant due to the expected increase in business but keep the overall shape exactly the same, asshown in the coordinate plane.

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We want to find a series of transformations that change the polygon ABCD into the polygon A'B'C'D'.

We see that a counter-clockwise rotation must be necessary, as:

By doing a traslation of 4 units to the right, and a dilation by a scale factor of 2, we obtain the desired figure. This is, the answer is B.

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