Essential Question: How does a dilation transform a figure?
Learning Target: Students will be able to perform a dilation of a figure on a coordinate plane.
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Use △ABC and its image △A'B'C' after a dilation to answer the following questions.
What the scale factor of ABC : A'B'C' ?
What do you notice about the angles of the pre-image and the image?
What is the relationship between the ratio of the perimeters compared to the ratios of the areas of ▭RSTU and ▭R'S'T'U' from the last problem?
What should we set k equal to if we want the image to be the exact same as the preimage?
A dilation will result in an object congruent to the original.
