Question

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Consider this dilation.
(a) Is the image of the dilation a reduction or an enlargement of the original figure? Explain.
(b)What is the scale factor? Explain and show your work.

Answer 1

a) A reduction.

b) 0.5 or 1/2

Explanation:

a) The new points are indicated by the ' next to the letters. By observing the graph, we can see that new points have lessened, and therefore shrank the dialtion, so it is a reduction.

b) On each point, it is reducted by 0.5.

Point A went down from 4 to 2, which is half of 4.

Point B went down from -2 to -1, which is half of -2.

Point C went down from 4 to 2, which is half of 4.

Point D went down from 8 to 4, which is half of 8.

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Answer 2

The red figure is the original and the green the dilation. We know this because the dilated points are marked with '.

Therefore, we can see that the dilation is a reduction of the original figure. The figure got smaller in size after the dilation.

To find the scale factor, we'll need to look at a few of the points before and after the dilation.

A = (-4, 4)

A' = (-2, 2)

C = (0, 4)

C' = (0, 2)

---The scale factor will be the same on all the points, which is why I have selected only 2 sets of points to look at.

Now, we can figure out the scale factor by thinking about how -4 got to -2, how 4 got to 2. In this case, it is simply dividing by 2. The scale factor must be in multiplication, so we cannot use division in reporting the scale factor, it must be a fraction.

2 / 4 = 1 / 2

The scale factor, therefore, is 1/2.

Hope this helps!