Question

st hexagon is dilated to form the second hexagon.

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Answer 1

The scale factor is 1.25

Solution:

We are given a hexagon which is dilated to form the second hexagon.

The size of the original hexagon is 5 units and the size of the dilated hexagon is 6.25 units

Let "c" be the scale factor

Then, we can say,

original hexagon is dilated by a scale factor "c" to get the dilated hexagon

$Dilated\ hexagon = scale\ factor \times original\ hexagon$

$6.25 = 5 \times c\\\\c = \frac{6.25}{5}\\\\c = 1.25$

Thus the scale factor is 1.25