Drawing Scaled Copies
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Objective
I can draw a scaled copy of a figure using a given scale factor by multiplying the lengths of the original figure by the scale factor.
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Practice
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How can you determine if two figures are scaled copies of each other?
Figure A is a rectangle with sides of length 4 and 6. Figure B is a rectangle with sides of length 8 and 12. Is Figure B a scaled copy of Figure A? Explain your reasoning.
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“A rectangle has a width of 4 cm and a length of 6 cm. Draw a scaled copy of the rectangle using a scale factor of 2. What are the new width and length? A triangle has sides of length 3 inches, 5 inches, and 7 inches. Draw a scaled copy of the triangle using a scale factor of 1.5. What are the new side lengths? ”
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