Question

In the diagram, ABC and DBE are similar. What is the scale factor of the dilation that will map the preimage ΔABC onto the image ΔDBE?

Answer 1

we know that

in this problem

the scale factor is equal to

$scale\ factor= \frac{ED}{AC}=\frac{12.09}{16.12}= 0.75$

therefore

the answer is

the scale factor is equal to $0.75$

Answer 2

The answer is 0.75 hope this helps i was stuck on this same problem