Question

a rectangle is dilated using a scale factor of 6. The image us then dilated using a scale factor 1/3.What scale facotr could you use to dilate the original rectangle to get the final rectangle?Explain

Answer 1

You multiply by 2 because if you take any number let's say 15, 15x 6 is 90 1/3 of 90 is 30 and 15 is half of thirty. this works with all numbers so the answer is dilate by a scale factor of 2.