Question

What is the scale factor of the dilation that maps the solid image onto the dotted image in the figure below?
http://cdn.activelms.com/data/042c73b1-ddf5-4fd6-91e7-6c8434228f3d/Geometry%20Images/unit%209-4%20q2.png

Answer 1

a)9/16
b) 16/9
c) 9/25
d) 16/25

Answer 2

they are asking what do you multiply 16 by to get 9

as an equation, with the unknown scale factor called "k", we write
16 k = 9

to "solve for k" we divide both sides by 16

Answer 3

a 9/16