Question

In the dilation shown above, the dark-colored figure represents the original image and the light-colored figure represents the resulting image.

What is the scale factor for this dilation?

2

Answer 1

@UglyTurtle

Answer 2

Okay so the correlation is by 4.

Answer 3

okay

Answer 4

The original image is the larger image and thus is a ratio of 1:4

Answer 5

so its 1/4?

Answer 6

1:4 = 1/4

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

thanks!

Answer 9

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