Question

Is the dilation an enlargement or a reduction? What is the scale factor of the dilation?

O reduction; 1/2

O enlargement; 2

Oreduction; 2

O enlargement;
1/2

Answer 1

enlargement ; 2

Explanation:

dilation is change in the size of the figure.

in the given scenario, figure's size is increasing so dilation is called enlargement and scale factor must be greater than 1.

scale factor = dimension of new shape / dimension of original shape

let's calculate the difference in terms of boxes of both figures to calculate the scale factor,

scale factor = 6/3

thus, in the given dilation we have enlargement of 2