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A polygon has a perimeter of 24mm. Find the new perimeter after a scale factor of 1/4 is applied?
Oct 14, 2010

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A perimeter is a linear quantity. Therefore it varies linearly with the scale factor. So
24mm * (1/4) = 6 mm.
Oct 15, 2010

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