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DEF is a dilation of ABC with center (0,0). What is the scale factor?
3
1/2
1/3
1/4

14 DEF is a dilation of ABC with center (0,0). What is the scale factor? 3 1/2 1/3 1/4-example-1
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that is a 1/3 dialation, becuase you can estimate the base of the bigger triangle to be around 12 and the base of the smaller triangle is 4, and that would be a fraction that is something like 4/12 which happens to be equal to 1/3.

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