Question

Write the rule for finding the coordinates of a point that has undergone a dilation (with the origin as the point of dilation). Use this rule to find the coordinates of this point's dilation from the origin, with a scale factor of 3: (4, 10).

Answer 1

(12, 40)

Explanation:

The first thing is to assume that we have a point with the following coordinates (x, y).

Now, we can have two different cases since the meaning of the expansion of a point is moving to a new point that is a greater distance from the origin if we are expanding by a value, that is, an integer in the system of coordinates and the other case is that if we are dilating by a fraction that is between 0 <x <1, then the distance from the origin decreases.

Now, the point (x, y) goes through an expansion by a scale factor f (with the origin as the expansion point), then the new coordinate of the point = [f * x, f * y], that scale factor has the value of 3, so if we replace we have:

(3 * 4, 4 * 10) = (12, 40)