Description: 👉 Learn about dilations. Dilation is the transformation of a shape by a scale factor to produce an image that ...

You already know that the size of an enlargement is described by its scale factor. For example, a scale factor of 2 means that the side-lengths of the new shape are twice the side-lengths of the ...

When a shape is enlarged, the image is similar to the original shape. It is the same shape but a different size. These two shapes are similar as they are both rectangles but one is an enlargement of ...