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A dilation is a transformation that maps every point on a line segment to a point on a parallel line segment. The image has a length that is determined by the preimage and a scale factor, which is a fixed _[blank]_ of the original segment's length.

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Answer 1

A dilation is a transformation that maps every point on a line segment to a point on a parallel line segment. The image has a length that is determined by the preimage and a scale factor, which is a fixed multiple of the original segment's length.