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An art student uses dilations in all her art. She first plans the art piece on a coordinate grid. Determine the vertices of the image of the triangle with vertices A(1,1) B(2,4) and C(3,9) after a dilation with scale factor 1.5.

 

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 Feb 16, 2016
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An art student uses dilations in all her art. She first plans the art piece on a coordinate grid. Determine the vertices of the image of the triangle with vertices A(1,1) B(2,4) and C(3,9) after a dilation with scale factor 1.5.

 

I asume the center of enlargement is the centroid.

 

We have:

The centroid of the triangle is:

1. Barycentric coordinates:

 

2. Scale factor 1.5

 

3. The vertices of the image

 

The vertices of the image are

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 Feb 16, 2016

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