Randy dilated △SAL with GeoGebra and found the area of the preimage △SAL to be 28 square units and the area of the image △S′A′L′ to be 90.72 square units. After erasing them, he remembered only the height of the preimage was 8 units. Questions: a) What is the scale factor for the dilation? b) Find the altitude "a" for the image. Please answer both questions above and thank you so much :)

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Randy dilated △SAL with GeoGebra and found the area of the preimage △SAL to be 28 square units and the area of the image △S′A′L′ to be 90.72 square units. After erasing them, he remembered only the height of the preimage was 8 units.

Questions:

a) What is the scale factor for the dilation?

b) Find the altitude "a" for the image.

Please answer both questions above and thank you so much :)

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A'
L'
Transcribed Image Text:A A' L'
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