What scale factor was applied to the first rectangle to get the resulting image? The answer is a decimal. The big rectangle is 2

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Veronika [31]

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What scale factor was applied to the first rectangle to get the resulting image? The answer is a decimal. The big rectangle is 2

.5 and the smaller one is 0.5

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Juli2301 [7.4K] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-06T17:26:04+03:00

Juli2301 [7.4K]3 years ago

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Scale factor is always (new/original)

so it depends which rectangle came first. if it started as large and was dilated to the smaller one, then the ratio is (.5/2.5) which simplifies to 1/5 or 0.2.