Question

A triangle has vertices of (-3,3),(-3,2), and (1,-2). What are the coordinates after dilating from the origin by a scale factor of 1/2?

Answer 1

The coordinates after a dilating the triangle by a factor of 1/2 would be (-1.5, 1.5), (-1.5, 1) and (0.5, -1), respectively.

Explanation:

Since we are dilating from the origin of the graph, (0, 0), all we need to do is multiply each vertex by the given scale factor.