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A rectangle is dilated using a scale factor of 6. The image is then dilated using a scale factor of 1/3. What scale factor could you use to dilate the original rectangle to get to the final rectangle. Explain.

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  1. 6 * 1/3 = 2

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  2. you could use the scale factor of 2 becaue when you do 2*1/3 it gets six

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