Question

Which statement about these rectangles is true?
A rectangle pre-image has a length of 4 and width of 2. A rectangle image has a length of 4 (1.5) and width of 2 (1.5).
The dilation is an enlargement.
The dilation is a reduction.
It is not a dilation.
There is not enough information.

Answer 1

The dilation is an enlargement.

Reason: Both the length and width are multiplied by the same scale factor 1.5 (4 → 6, 2 → 3). Because the scale factor is greater than 1, the image is an enlargement.