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Course: High school geometry > Unit 2

Lesson 2: Dilation preserved properties

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Dilations and properties

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Triangle

△ A^{'} B^{'} C^{'}

is the result of dilating

△ A B C

about point

P

by a scale factor of

\frac{1}{4}

.

Determine whether each claim about the properties of $△ A B C$ ‍ and $△ A^{'} B^{'} C^{'}$ ‍ is true or false.


The lengths of $\overset{―}{A B}$ ‍ and $\overset{―}{A^{'} B^{'}}$ ‍ are equal.
The measures of $∠ C$ ‍ and $∠ C^{'}$ ‍ are equal.

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