A softball diamond is in the shape of a square. The distance from base to base is 60 feet. How far does a catch throw the ball f
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<h2>Answer</h2>
After the dilation around the center of dilation (2, -2), our triangle will have coordinates:
First, we are going to translate the center of dilation to the origin. Since the center of dilation is (2, -2) we need to move two units to the left (-2) and two units up (2) to get to the origin. Therefore, our first partial rule will be:
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Next, we are going to perform our dilation, so we are going to multiply our resulting point by the dilation factor . Therefore our second partial rule will be:
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Now, the only thing left to create our actual rule is going back from the origin to the original center of dilation, so we need to move two units to the right (2) and two units down (-2)
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Now that we have our rule, we just need to apply it to each point of our triangle to perform the required dilation:
Now we can finally draw our triangle:
We know that the law of sines states that:
For simplicity, let:
In triangle A1BC this leads to:
Therefore:
Now, triangle A2BC is isosceles which means that both the base angles are equal, since angle CA1B and A2A1B are supplementary we have: