Question

Rectangle ABCD is drawn on a coordinate plane if the rectangle were dilated using a magnitude of 3 and center of dilation at (3,0) what would be the corresponding ordered pair to point A (0,0)

Answer 1

Use the dilation formula: image = center + k*(point − center).

Center = (3,0), point A = (0,0), k = 3:
(3,0) + 3*((0,0) − (3,0)) = (3,0) + 3*(-3,0) = (3,0) + (-9,0) = (−6,0).

So A maps to (−6, 0).