Lesson 4 S24 Dilations and Rotational Symmetry (2)
Lesson 4 S24 Dilations and Rotational Symmetry (2)
Warm-up:
1. Graph quadrilateral QRST with vertices Q(2, -1), R(5, -2), S(5, -4), and T(2, -4) and its image after the
composition of transformations.
a. b. c.
Rigid transformations always result in an image that is congruent to the preimage. Transformations resulting in an
image that is congruent to the preimage are called isometries
The word dilation is a term used to describe the enlarging or shrinking of an object or image. The scale factor is a
ratio that gives a comparison of the size of the new object or image to the size of the original object or image.
When we are performing dilations on the coordinate plane, an image is pulled toward or away from a point that is
called a center of dilation.
Ex. 1: In the diagram shown, ABC will be dilated with a scale factor
of 2 using Point D (6,3) as the center of dilation. To begin this dilation,
both the vertical and horizontal distances from each point to Point D
must be found. Each of these distances must be multiplied by our
scale factor of 2 to create the new image ABC .
process can be used to determine the center of dilation when only the image and the preimage are given.
Find the center of dilation and the scale factor for the dilations shown:
Ex. 4 Ex. 5
Rotational Symmetry:
__________ b. Point E would map to which point after a 72° rotation clockwise?