Given triangles MNP and QRP are similar triangles, and side MN equals 16 in and QR equals 48 in, what is the scale factor of the dilation from triangle MNP to QRP? "

Afarmer has a large field that is x feet in length. he wants to fence in a rectangular section in the middle of the field , leaving a length of 100 feet of open field behind each end of the fenced rectangle.he also wants the width of the fenced-in space to be 100 feet less than its length. find the expressions to represent the length and width of the fenced section of the field