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What is a transformation that proportionally reduces or enlarges a figure.

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Answer: Dilation is a transformation that proportionally reduces or enlarges a figure.

Explanation:

  • A dilation a transformation that changes the size of the shape by using scale factor in particular ways .

It stretches or shrinks the actual figure. It produces similar figures.

Since the corresponding sides of similar figures are in proportion.

It proportionally reduces or enlarges a figure.

Hence, A dilation is a transformation that proportionally reduces or enlarges a figure.

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