Identifying Dilations

Identifying Dilations
Introduction

A dilation is a transformation that changes the size of a figure while preserving its shape. The figure may become larger or smaller, but its overall appearance remains similar. D...

When you use a projector to display an image on a screen, the picture can become larger while keeping the same shape.

Here, the angles stay the same, and only the size changes.

Transformations like this, in which a figure becomes larger or smaller while preserving its shape, are called dilations.

It is performed from a fixed ...