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ENLARGEMENT AND REDUCTION
ENLARGEMENT AND REDUCTION
b. They decrease
c. They increase
d. They rotate
b. It increases
c. It decreases
3. In an enlargement, if the scale factor is greater than 1, what can you conclude about the image?
d. It is rotated
6. Which term refers to the ratio of the length of a side in the image to the length of the corresponding
side in the original figure?
a. Perimeter
b. Scale factor
c. Area ratio
d. Similarity ratio
7. If the scale factor of an enlargement is 2, what happens to the area of the figure?
a. It doubles
b. It halves
d. It quadruples
c. It is always equal to 1
a. Translation
b. Reflection
c. Rotation
d. Dilation
10. If the original figure is a square, what will the shape of the image be in an enlargement with a scale
factor of 3?
a. Rectangle
b. Square
c. Circle
11. In an enlargement, if the scale factor is 1, what can you say about the image?
d. It is undefined
a. Area
b. Perimeter
c. Diagonals
d. Angles
b. Rotation
c. Reflection
d. Dilation
14. If the scale factor of an enlargement is 0.5, what happens to the dimensions of the original figure?
a. They double
b. They halve
15. When reducing a rectangle, what is true about the corresponding sides?
16. In an enlargement, if the scale factor is 1.5, what happens to the area of the figure?
a. It increases by 50%
b. It decreases by 50%
c. It doubles
17. What is the name for a transformation that preserves angles but not necessarily distances?
a. Similarity transformation
b. Congruence transformation
c. Isometric transformation
d. Symmetry transformation
18. If two figures are similar, what can you say about their corresponding angles?
a. It decreases
b. It increases
d. It becomes zero
20. In an enlargement, what effect does the scale factor have on the distance between points?
Certainly! Here are 10 more multiple-choice questions on the topic of enlargement and reduction of
plane figures:
21. When reducing a parallelogram, what happens to the measures of its interior angles?
a. They increase
b. They decrease
22. What is the term for the point about which an enlargement or reduction is centered?
a. Origin
b. Vertex
c. Center of dilation
d. Axis
23. In an enlargement, if the scale factor is less than 1, what can you conclude about the image?
d. It is rotated
25. If the scale factor of an enlargement is 0.8, what is the effect on the area of the figure?
a. It decreases by 80%
b. It increases by 80%
c. It doubles
26. When reducing a triangle, what happens to the measures of its angles?
a. They increase
b. They decrease
28. If the scale factor of an enlargement is 2, what happens to the perimeter of the figure?
a. It doubles
b. It halves
d. It quadruples
29. When reducing a square, what is true about the corresponding sides?
30. In an enlargement, if the scale factor is negative, what happens to the orientation of the figure?
b. It is reflected
c. It is rotated
d. It becomes undefined