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geometry senior

Problem

The center of a circle has coordinates . The circle is reflected about the line . What are the coordinates of the center of the image circle? State the coordinate first.
Solution
The center of the image circle is simply the center of the original circle reflected over the line . When reflecting over this line, we swap the and coordinates. Thus, the image center is the point .
Final answer
(-5, 6)