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Question 973823: Rectangle ABCD is englarged under a dilation centered at the orgin with scale factor 2.5. What is the perimeter of the image?
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Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The rectangle is 4 units in the x-axis and 2 in the y-axis. The current perimeter is 12 units, 2 times 4 plus 2 times 2.
A dilation of 2.5 will make the perimeter 30 units. It will have length 10 and width 5.
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