Question

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A scale factor of (0.5 or 2) was applied to the first triangle to get the resulting image.

This scale factor is ( an enlargement or a reduction )

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An equilateral triangle with a side length of 3.4. An arrow points to a smaller equilateral triangle with a side length of 1.7

Answer 1

Note that after scaling, the triangle is still an equilateral triangle as before, and the only difference is that the side length is halved from 3.4 to 1.7 (3.4/2=1.7). Therefore, the scale factor is 1.7/3.4=0.5. A scale factor <1 means that the original shape is reduced (becomes smaller), so the scale factor is a reduction.

Answer 2

A scale factor of $0.5$ is applied to the first triangle to get the resulting image and this scale factor is reduced.

Given,

An Equilateral triangle with a side length of $3.4$

A smaller equilateral triangle with a side length of $1.7$ .

Since here the bigger equilateral triangle converts to the smaller equilateral triangle so the scale factor here is reducing.

Here the side is reducing from $3.4$ to $1.7$

it means it is exactly half of the bigger, hence the scale factor here is $0.5$.

What is the scale factor?

Since the resulting figure is smaller in size.

So, the scale factor here is reduced.

Hence, a scale factor of $0.5$ is applied to the first triangle to get the resulting image and this scale factor is reduced.

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