Given:
The length of side AB is 6. After being dilated, the length of side A'B' is
now 3.
Required:
Find the scale factor.
Explanation:
Scale Factor is defined as the ratio of the size of the new image to the size of the old image.
[tex]\begin{gathered} Scale\text{ factor = }\frac{3}{6} \\ =\frac{1}{2} \end{gathered}[/tex]Final Answer:
The scale factor is
[tex]\frac{1}{2}[/tex]