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GCSE Maths: Enlargements: centre of enlargement

Geometry & Measures · AQA GCSE Maths (8300). Cards are generated from the Corbettmaths textbook exercise for Enlargements: centre of enlargement (Corbettmaths Video 104), and every card links back to the exact page it came from. Practice tests are drawn from this deck’s own cards. Source material © Corbettmaths — used with attribution.

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  1. What are the two pieces of information required to fully describe an enlargement?

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    The scale factor and the centre of enlargement.

  2. The point from which distances are measured when performing an enlargement is called the ?.

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    centre of enlargement

  3. Can the origin be used as a centre of enlargement?

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    Yes, the origin (0, 0) can be used as the centre of enlargement.

  4. What type of transformation involves a scale factor and a centre of enlargement?

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    An enlargement.

  5. In an enlargement with scale factor 2, if a point is 5 units from the centre of enlargement, how far will the enlarged point be from the centre?

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    10 units (5 × 2).

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