You have become an internet sensation after your video received over 5 million views

in one week. This made you 1 million dollars. You call a builder and ask them to build
you a house twice the size of your current house. The new coordinates of your house
are (–4,0), (–4,4), (–2, 6), (0,4), and (0,0).

Plot the points of the new house after a scale factor of 2 with the given coordinates.
(This is a transformation called dilation.) Use a different color to plot the points.
Name the color you use on your graph here.Is your new house after this transformation congruent to the house
Explain your answer.

1 answer

To plot the new house using dilation with a scale factor of 2 from the original coordinates you provided, we first identify the original coordinates and then apply the dilation transformation.

Original Coordinates:

  • \(A(-4, 0)\)
  • \(B(-4, 4)\)
  • \(C(-2, 6)\)
  • \(D(0, 4)\)
  • \(E(0, 0)\)

Dilation Transformation: When we perform a dilation with a scale factor of 2, we multiply each coordinate by 2.

New Coordinates:

  • \(A'(-4 \times 2, 0 \times 2) = (-8, 0)\)
  • \(B'(-4 \times 2, 4 \times 2) = (-8, 8)\)
  • \(C'(-2 \times 2, 6 \times 2) = (-4, 12)\)
  • \(D'(0 \times 2, 4 \times 2) = (0, 8)\)
  • \(E'(0 \times 2, 0 \times 2) = (0, 0)\)

Coordinates After Dilation:

  • \(A'(-8, 0)\)
  • \(B'(-8, 8)\)
  • \(C'(-4, 12)\)
  • \(D'(0, 8)\)
  • \(E'(0, 0)\)

For the graph, you could choose a color such as blue to plot these new points.

Congruence: The new house after this transformation is not congruent to the original house.

Reason:

  • Congruent figures have the same shape and size. In this case, the new house is twice the size of the original house. The process of dilation enlarges the shape but does not preserve its size. Hence, while the shapes are similar, they are not congruent.