Elias’s teacher has given him a rectangle that is 15 feet by 20 feet. She has asked him to create a new rectangle using a scale

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factor of 8/3. Elias says that will be a reduction because the scale factor is a fraction. Is he correct?

2 answers:

GenaCL600 [577] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-06T02:16:13+03:00

8 0

Answer:

Elias is not correct, A scale factor of 8/3 is an enlargement because it is greater than 1.

A reduction has a scale factor between

0 and 1.

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Vika [28.1K] · Answer 2 · 2022-07-05T23:57:05+03:00

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Answer:

Yes

Step-by-step explanation:

Because for every 8 feet of the original rectangles, it will be 3 feet on the scale model, therefore it is reducing.