Line AB is on the coordinate plane and does not pass through the origin. Line AB is dilated with a scale factor of three in a center of dilation at the origin to create line A’B’. Describe the effects of the dilation on the line AB if line AB was dilated with a scale factor of 1/3 how would your answer change?
When line AB is dilated with a scale factor of three in a center of dilation at the origin to create line A’B’, the new line will be three times longer than the original line AB. The line will also be parallel to the original line with the same slope.
If line AB was dilated with a scale factor of 1/3, the new line would be one third the length of the original line AB. The line would still be parallel to the original line, but it would be shorter rather than longer.