Question

A regular pentagon with sides each measuring 6 inches is dilated by a scale factor of 3.1. What is the length of each side of the dilated pentagon?

Answer 1

18.6inches

Explanation:

Given the length of a side of a pentagon to be 6 inches.

If this length is dilated by a factor of 3.1, the new length will be;

New length = Old length * dilation factor

New length = 6 * 3.1

New length = 18.6inches

Hence the length of each side of the dilated pentagon is 18.6inches