A student says that a coordinate grid under a dilation with the center at the origin and scale factor 2 does not change the grid

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AveGali [126]

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A student says that a coordinate grid under a dilation with the center at the origin and scale factor 2 does not change the grid

. The image is still a coordinate grid. How do you respond?

Mathematics

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Kisachek [45] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-06T19:49:42+03:00

Answer:

Dilation changes (x,y) values not the grid or coordinate plane. Basically, dilating a graph or a coordinate grid means the original coordinates you may have had will be changed with the dilation. For example, a triangle plotted had its original area of 26 dilated to an area of 58.