Question

CARD #8: Henry says that the two figures will be congruent. A figure on a coordinate plane is dilated by a scale factor that is less than one. Heather says that the two figures will be similar.​

Answer 1

Heather is correct.

Explanation:

Two figures are similar if the figures have the same shape but different size

Two figures are congruent if they have the same shape and size.

So, if we dilate a given figure (by any factor different than one) then we are changing the size of this figure.

Finally, a figure and its dilation can't be congruent, as these figures have different size (but still have the same shape, so the figures are always similar)

Then Heather is correct.