Question

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What is the scale factor for the set of similar figures?

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Answer 1

my answer 2.9

Answer 2

@amistre64

Answer 3

yeah

Answer 4

since the new figure after the transformation is smaller, this means that the scale factor is smaller than 1 (but also positive)

Answer 5

scale factor = (new length)/(old length) = ???

Answer 6

20/7=2.85..... but I rounded it to 2.9

Answer 7

@jim_thompson5910

Answer 8

you should have done it the other way around

7/20 = 0.35

Answer 9

basically the smaller figure is 35% of the larger figure

Answer 10

oh woops :P... thank you

Answer 11

yw