Question

(show work if you can) The two figures are scaled copies of each other.

a. What is the scale factor that takes Figure 1 to Figure 2?
b. What is the scale factor that takes Figure 2 to Figure 1?

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Scale Factor = 3

b) Scale Factor = 1/3

Step-by-step explanation:

In the first figure, the length between points A and C is 2.

In the second figure, the length between the corresponding points for A and C is 6.

6 · $\frac{1}{2}$ = 3

So, your scale factor would be 3.

The opposite for question b.