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What is the scale factor?

What is the scale factor?-example-1
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Answer:

3

Explanation:

As you can see we can compare one side of the larger triangle to the other one by seeing the length of the side

One side measures 27 while another one measures 9 (from the other triangle) to get to 9 starting by 27, we divide by 3…

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Answer: B

Explanation:

You can see that the length of the sides from abc are factored by 1/3 to get the length of xyz. Therefore, the scale factor is 1/3.

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