Question

A square has a side length of 12 meters. This square is dilated by a scale factor of 3\4 to create a new square. What is the side length of the new square?

Answer 1

The side length of the new square will be 9 inches.

What is the effect of the scale factor?

The scale factor of a dilation is a factor that affects the length of the square and invariably the area.

Given that the square has a side length of 12 inches and the dilation factor is 3/4.

The side length of the new square will be the product of the scale factor and the length of the original shape.

The length of new square = 12 × 3/4    

= 9 inches

Hence, The side length of the new square will be 9 inches.

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