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What is the scale factor of the following similar triangles?

What is the scale factor of the following similar triangles?-example-1
User Mr Jax
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The scale factor is 2.

9.5 times 2 is 19

6 times 2 is 12

also, it could be 0.5

User Tomekwi
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That's a scale factor of 1/2 because the image triangle P'Q'R' has sides that are half the size of PQR.