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Maintaining Mathematical Proficiency
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Exercise 3 Page 541

The red figure is the same shape as the blue one but bigger. What is another word for making something larger?

Dilation

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If we look at the picture we can see that the figures have the same shape but different sizes.

The red figure is a bigger version of the blue one. Another word for that is that the red figure is a dilation of the blue figure.