Question

MEDAL scale factors??? the dashed triangle is a dilation of the solid triangle what is the scale factor?

Answer 1

what is the distance between -4 and +4

Answer 2

which is the length of one of the side of the triangle

Answer 3

the scale factor will be 0.5

Answer 4

0

Answer 5

wait but how did you get that like is there a specific formula or something?

Answer 6

length of one side of the solid triangle is 8
and length of the similar side of the similar triangle is 4
so scale factor = 4/8 = 0.5

Answer 7

oh wow i didn't realize how easy that was well thank you!(: