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You might find it helpful to copy this diagram onto
squared
paper .
Enlarge the flag by a scale factor of $2$ about the first centre of
enlargement. Now enlarge the resulting flag by a scale factor of
$\frac{1}{2}$ about the second centre of enlargement. Can you find
a single transformation that takes the first flag to the last
flag?
Try this with the flag in different positions, and with different
centres of enlargement. Describe what will happen for any two
centres of enlargement and a flag in any position.
Now try changing the scale factors so that the first enlargement is
by scale factor $3$ and the second by scale factor $\frac{1}{3}$.
Try some other similar pairs (remembering that if the first scale
factor is $k$ then the second one should be $\frac{1}{k}$).
Describe what will happen if the first scale factor is $k$ and the
second $\frac{1}{k}$?