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suter
1 month ago
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A dilation is a nonrigid transformation that can produce enlarged or reduced images from a given pre-image. How do you know that

a dilation will produce similar figures? Explain.
Mathematics
2 answers:
Leona [12.6K]1 month ago
8 0
Dilations yield similar figures because they maintain congruence of corresponding angles in both the image and the pre-image. The lengths of corresponding sides will remain proportional according to the scale factor, preserving the shape while altering the size.
Svet_ta [12.7K]1 month ago
8 0
A translation involves a transformation that shifts every point of a figure uniformly in a specific direction and distance. The connection lines between the preimage points and their corresponding image points will be equivalent. However, dilations are a type of transformation that do not maintain isometry.
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