The engineer realizes that the jet engine will run more efficiently if she uses a bolt that is similarly shaped to the original bolt with the center of dilation at the origin but has a scale factor of 1/2. She plans to label the new bolt Hexagon A'B'C'D'E'F' on the coordinate plane.

An is a number that is written without a component. it is a number that is either or . an exponent is a or a number that another number is being to. the number that is being raised to a is called the . the or power tells you how many times to the base by . if an exponent is fractional then ask yourself the question: what when multiplied by itself a certain number of times will equal the number?