We have a pre-image that is the point (4, 5).
We applied a dilation with scale 0.5 and center at (1, 6).
As the center is not the center of coordinates, we applied a change of coordinates to make (1, 6) the center of coordinates.
Then, the point (4, 5) becomes:
[tex](4,5)\longrightarrow(4-1,5-6)=(3,-1)[/tex]
We apply the dilation to the point and get:
[tex](3,-1)\longrightarrow(0.5\cdot3,0.5\cdot(-1))=(1.5,-0.5)[/tex]
Now, we go back to the original coordinates:
[tex](1.5,-0.5)\longrightarrow(1.5+1,-0.5+6)=(2.5,5.5)[/tex]
We can verify the transformation in a graph:
The graph makes sense, as the image point is half the distance from the center of dilation that the pre-image point.
