Question

Quadrilateral A’B’C’D’ is a dilation of quadrilateral ABCD about point P with a scale factor of 212 . Is the dilation a reduction or an enlargement?

Answer 1

This is an enlargement because the scale factor is larger than 1.

Answer 2

The given dilation is a enlargement.

Explanation:

We know that a dilation either enlarge or shrinks the original figure .It includes the concept of scale factor by which we determine whether the dilation is a stretch or a shrink.the dilation occurs around a fix point in a plane which is known as center of dilation.

If scale factor>1 the dilation is enlargement( stretch)

if scale factor<1 the dilation is shrink.

Here we are given that the scale factor is 212>1.

Hence our dilation is a enlargement( stretch).