Point M(-6,8) is dilated from the origin with a scale factor of 1/2. What is the coordinate of M'?

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Point M(-6,8) is dilated from the origin with a scale factor of 1/2. What is the coordinate of M'?

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The idea of dilation is to make something bigger or smaller ( according to scale factor).

Here the dilation is doing or the centre of dialtion is at origin (0,0) so For doing such  dilation we have to multiply each coordinate of the given point with the scale factor.

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