How do you scale a picture if the new picture is smaller than the original in math?
To scale a picture, if the new picture is smaller than the original, you need to apply a scaling factor that is less than 1.
The scaling factor represents the ratio of the new size to the original size. For example, if you want to scale a picture to be half its original size, the scaling factor would be 0.5.
To scale the picture, you would multiply the coordinates of each point in the original picture by the scaling factor. This will shrink the picture proportionally.
For example, if you have a point with coordinates (x, y) in the original picture, and the scaling factor is 0.5, then the coordinates of that point in the scaled picture would be (0.5x, 0.5y).
Repeat this process for all the points in the original picture to obtain the coordinates of the corresponding points in the scaled picture.