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What is the image of (0,-4) after a dilation by a scale factor of 1/2centered at the origin?

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Answer:

The image after the dilation is (0,-2)

Explanation:

To get the image of g he dilation, what we have to do is to divide the given coordinate by 2 or simply multiply each of the given coordinates by 1/2

Mathematically, we have this as;

(0 * 1/2 , -4 * 1/2)

= (0, -2)

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