IGCSE Maths / Transformation and similarity

Finding the centre of enlargement

Edexcel International GCSE Maths (4MA1), chapter 14: Transformation and similarity, specification point 5.2l. Part of the full course.

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To describe an enlargement from an object and its image, find where lines through matching corners meet and calculate the scale factor from matching sides. You need to state both the scale factor and the centre.

More lessons in Transformation and similarity

• Lines of symmetry and rotational symmetry
• Equations of common mirror lines
• Reflecting a shape in a line
• Reflecting in y = x and y = -x
• Finding the mirror line from object and image
• What defines a rotation
• Rotating a shape about a point
• Positive and negative rotation angles
• Rotating about a point not on the shape
• What defines a translation
• Translating a shape
• Column vectors in translations
• Congruence under transformations
• Describing a single transformation fully
• Combining two transformations
• What defines an enlargement
• Similarity under enlargement
• Enlarging from a given centre
• Fractional scale factor enlargements
• Conditions for congruent triangles
• Proving triangles are congruent
• Similar shapes: corresponding lengths
• Area scale factor
• Volume scale factor
• Similar solids, mass and capacity
• Similar shapes problem solving