Polygon 3
Polygon ABCD is dilated, rotated, and translated to form polygon QWER. The endpoints A and B are at (0, -7) and (8, 8), and the endpoints QW are at (6, -6) and (2, 1.5). What is the scale factor of the dilation?
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You need to know the following knowledge to solve this word math problem:
- geometry
- analytic geometry
- line segment
- arithmetic
- square root
- planimetrics
- Pythagorean theorem
- right triangle
- polygon
- basic functions
- ratio
- functions
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