The lengths of the larger square are three times as long as the smaller square. The area of the larger square is nine times as large as the area of the smaller square. The area scale factor is 9. This ...

You already know that the size of an enlargement is described by its scale factor. For example, a scale factor of 2 means that the side-lengths of the new shape are twice the side-lengths of the ...

Students in Miss Faro’s mathematics classes at the Carl H. Kumpf School in Clark are learning about scale drawings and similar figures. As a class, they have investigated many maps to find the ...