Question

What is the image of left parenthesis, minus, 8, comma, minus, 4, right parenthesis(−8,−4) after a dilation by a scale factor of one quarter
1/4
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centered at the origin?

Answer 1

Multiply each coordinate by 1/4: (-8)*(1/4) = -2 and (-4)*(1/4) = -1.

So the image is (-2, -1).