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TSI Math: Understanding How Dilation Affects a Shape's Perimeter 1 Views


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The triangle shown above is dilated by a factor of 3. What is its perimeter after the transformation?


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Okay sy mash members we've got a lovely little triangle

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for you here and it's a special ones you khun

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tell We got eight and then sixteen sixteen so it's

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i sasa lease and a couple other things alright question

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The triangle shown above is dilated by a factor of

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three Yeah it's giving birth What is its perimeter After

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the transformation Perimeter after dilation Well if we drew a

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triangle on a balloon and inflated it the triangle would

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be stretched out which essentially what happens with a dilation

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tried out Just don't get blue in the face from

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blowing up the balloons In this case strangles dilated by

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a factor of three which means all sides become three

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times as long was multiplying All three right so three

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times sixteen forty eight three times sixteen Still forty eight

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three times eight is twenty four right so we could

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just add all those up or if we were a

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little bit more clever we could have just added the

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sixteen sixteen to thirty two and a that's forty Multiply

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it by three and you get one twenty and that's

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it The answer is c as in the simulator we

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