A square has a perimeter of 52 mm. The square is dilated by a scale factor of 3. what is the side length of the resulting image?

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Tobias J · Answer 1 · 2021-01-13T00:51:37+0000

Answer:

39

Explanation:

Since a square has 4 equal sides, it's safe to do
(52)/(4) to get each side length (each side is 13 mm).

Dilating a side means you're multiplying it by the scale factor. This means that you're doing
13*3 to each side (each side is 39 mm).