Question

Segment AB has endpoints A(-4, 16) and B(8,0). The segment is dilated about the origin by a scale factor of 0.5 to create segment A'B' What are the endpoints of segment A'B'?

Answer 1

we have

A(-4,16)

B(8,0)

then

$A^{\prime}=(-4\cdot0.5,16\cdot0.5)=(-2,8)$

and

$B^{\prime}=(8,0)=(8\cdot0.5,0\cdot0.5)=(4,0)$

answer: A' (-2,8) and B' (4,0)