Center Of Dilation Math Is Fun

Find the center of dilation if dilating 3 7 by a factor 3 results in 9 3.

Center of dilation math is fun. Given a figure and its image under a dilation determine the dilation s center point. With this in mind we came up with three dilation games for assessing her students understanding. Here we call it resizing but other people call it dilation contraction compression enlargement or even expansion. In general english it means to make larger.

There are actually thousands of centers. Where is the center of a triangle. 𝑥 3 3 9 3 1 0. Perform a dilation of on point a 2 4 which you can see in the picture below.

Given the independent and dependent variables and the center point find the scale factor. If you re seeing this message it means we re having trouble loading external resources on our website. Same idea just different names. Multiply the coordinates of the original point 2 3 called the image by 4.

To resize just do this for every corner. The definition of dilation. Quadrilateral just means four sides quad means four lateral means side a quadrilateral has four sides it is 2 dimensional a flat shape closed the lines join up and has straight sides. Same idea just different names.

So the center of dilation is 0 9 2 comments. Given an independent variable a point and a function rule a center and scale factor find the dependent variable the dilated point. 𝑦 3 7 3 3 1 9. Use the formula for dilations.

Image s coordinates 2 4 3 4 to get the coordinates of the image 8 12. Let 𝑥 𝑦 be the center of dilation. Let s look at each one. For each of those the center is where special lines cross so it all depends on those lines.