can someone check to see if I am right please? will attach image in comments.

The dashed triangle is a dilation image of the solid triangle with the center at the origin. Is the dilation an enlargement or a reduction? Find the scale factor of the dilation.

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can someone check to see if I am right please? will attach image in comments.

The dashed triangle is a dilation image of the solid triangle with the center at the origin. Is the dilation an enlargement or a reduction? Find the scale factor of the dilation.

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I am assuming that the smaller one is dashed. if that is the case then the scale factor is 1/3 and it is a reduction

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thank you

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so how would i figure this out?  have to show work:\

anonymous · Answer

look at the diagram. what is the distance from the left- most point on each triangle to the right base and correlate the difference between the 2 distances

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Thank you sorry for the trouble:\

anonymous · Answer

no problem