Oscar G.

asked • 05/11/23

Would my answer be correct if not please help me!!



coordinate plane with segment AB located at A 0 comma 2 and B 2 comma 3


segment AB is dilated from the origin to create segment A prime B prime at A′ (0, 8) and B′ (8, 12). What scale factor was segment AB dilated by?

 one half 

2

 3 

4 I say option 2 but I am not sure please correcf me ASAP


Brenda D.

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Did you draw the dilation? If so is your dilation 2 times shorter/longer, 4 times longer? If A is (0,2) and A’ is (0,8) what multiplication does that give? You can check on dilation about the origin to see what it means, typically your just multiply the coordinates.
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