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Triangle PQR is transformed to similar triangle P’Q’R’:

What is the scale factor of dilation?
A. 1 over 2
B. 1 over 3
C. 1 over 4
D. 1 over 5

Triangle PQR is transformed to similar triangle P’Q’R’: What is the scale factor of-example-1
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1/3 because one takes up three units of space

User Pawel Piatkowski
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The scale factor of the dilation is
(1)/(3).
Notice how one unit of Q'P' can take up 3 units of QP.
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