Grade 6 Math: Enlargement
This worksheet focuses on understanding and applying enlargement and scale factors to geometric shapes for Grade 6 students.
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Grade 6 Math: Enlargement
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to determine the scale factor, find new dimensions, or draw enlarged shapes.
1. What happens to a shape when it is enlarged?
It gets smaller.
It changes shape.
It gets bigger but keeps the same shape.
It rotates.
2. If a square with side length 3 cm is enlarged by a scale factor of 2, what will be the new side length?
3 cm
5 cm
6 cm
9 cm
3. The number by which a shape is enlarged is called the .
4. To enlarge a shape, you each side length by the scale factor.
5. A rectangle has a length of 8 cm and a width of 4 cm. If it is enlarged by a scale factor of 1.5, what are the new length and width?
6. Draw a square with side lengths of 2 units. Then, enlarge it by a scale factor of 3 on the grid below. Label the original square 'A' and the enlarged square 'B'.
Match the original dimension with its enlarged dimension given a scale factor of 2.
7. Original length: 5 cm
a. 12 cm
8. Original width: 3 cm
b. 10 cm
9. Original height: 6 cm
c. 6 cm