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geometry senior
Problem
Parallelogram with , , , and is reflected across the -axis to and then is reflected across the line to . This is done such that is the image of , and is the image of . What is the ordered pair of in the coordinate plane?
Solution
Reflecting a point across the -axis multiplies its -coordinate by . Therefore, . To reflect across the line , we first translate both the line and the point down one unit so that the equation of the translated line is and the coordinates of the translated point are . To reflect across , we switch the -coordinate and -coordinate to obtain . Translating this point one unit up, we find that .
Final answer
(-2,5)