Assessment Task:
Solve the following problems based on the pictures given. You may use a calculator. Show work and answers on separate piece of paper. Use units when appropriate.
- What scale factor makes the sides of B equal the sides of A?
- What scale factor makes the area of B equal the area of A?
- The squares are now cubes. What scale factor makes the volume of B equal the volume of A?
- What is the relationship do you see between the scale factors of side length, area, and volume? Describe that relationship as a ratio and in words. Do you think this will always work? Why?
Finding Properties of Scale Factor Task, Commentary, and Solutions
CCSS.Math.HS.G-SRT.1 “Verify experimentally the properties of dilation given by a center and a scale factor”