Week 12 Tuesday

Geometry: Presentation

Geometry Lab: Dilating a farm

• A farmer wants to double his crops by dilating his farm with a scale factor of 2. Will this work?

  1. Draw a rectangular farm and find its area

  2. Dilate it by 2

  3. Find the area of this image farm

  4. Dilate your original farm by 3

  5. Find the area of this image farm

  6. Dilate your original farm by 4

  7. Find the area of this image farm

  8. What patterns did you notice