Question

Question 5(Multiple Choice Worth 1 points) (03.03 LC) If a figure has been dilated by a scale factor of 4, which statement explains how a translation can be used to prove the figures are similar using the AA similarity postulate? A translation can map one side onto another since dilations preserve side lengths of triangles. A translation can map one angle onto another since dilations preserve angle measures of triangles. A translation can map the center of a triangle onto another since dilations preserve the location of the center of triangles. A translation can map the vertices of one triangle onto another since dilations preserve the size of triangles.

Answer 1

A translation because it can map one angle onto another since dilations preserve angle measures of triangles.

Explanation:

Answer 2

A translation can map one angle unto another since dilations preserve angle measures of triangles

Explanation:

The dilation of the figure by a scale factor of 4 gives an image that is 4 times the size of the original figure. However, the interior angles of the image and the original figure remain the same

A translation is a rigid transformation, such that the image and the preimage of a translation transformation have the same dimensions and angles

A translation of three consecutive non-linear points of the dilated image to the vertex and the two lines joining the corresponding point on the image, translates the angle at the given vertex

The above process can be repeated, to translate a second angle from the image to the preimage, from which it can be shown that the two figures are similar using Angle Angle, AA, similarity postulate