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A square split into four separate and equal boxes shows four shapes at different scales as follows: A star at a scale of 1 to 5; an octagon at a scale of 20 to 0.5; a triangle at a scale of 10 to 1; and a pentagon at a scale of 1 to 0.1.
Which scale drawing is a dilation that decreased the size of the original object it represents? Figure 1 is the star with scale 1:5
, Figure 2 is the octagon with scale 2:0.5
, Figure 3 is the triangle with scale 10:1
, and Figure 4 is the pentagon with scale 1:0.1
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Answer 1

Figure 1.

Reason: a 1:5 scale means the drawing is 1/5 the size of the original (scale factor 1/5 < 1), so it is a reduction (dilation that decreased the size).