Answer with a complete sentence. Maria is training to be a long-distance runner. She runs once every day. On the average, each day that Maria has run, she has improved her time by 20 seconds. Today she ran for the fifth time. Her time was 10 min 48 seconds. What was Maria's running time the first day she ran?

When you dilate a figure with a scale factor of 1/2, what will the dilated figure look like?                                                                                           a: the dilated figure will have side lengths that are half the length of the original side lengths.                                                                          b: the angles in the dilated figure will be half the measure of the original figure.                                                                                c: the dilated figure will have side lengths twice the length of the original.