Question

Polygon ABCDEFGH will be dilated by a scale factor of 3.4 with the origin as the center of dilation to produce polygon A′B′C′D′E′F′G′H′. What will the length of A'H'¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ be?

Answer 1

Ok, so we don't know the length of the sides AH so we need to know that in order to solve it

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Do you know what dilation means?

Answer 4

u there?

Answer 5

Well this problem is a little difficult because the shape isn't centered at the origin but It'll do. So you know that the length of AF is 2. So what you do is multiply every x and every y coordinate by 3.4. Since we only care about the points A' and F'. lets focus on these. So multiply 3.4 to the x and y coordinates of both A and F, then find the distance between the two