Identifying Translations

Identifying Translations

Introduction

A translation moves every point of a figure the same distance in the same direction. By comparing the coordinates of a figure and its image, we can determine how the figure wa...

Sienna is working on an assignment. She needs to determine how triangle ABC was translated to form its image, triangle A′B′C′.

She compares the coordinates of corresponding vertices. She notices that the x-coordinates of the corresponding vertices increase by 5.

Since every x-coordinate increases by 5, while the y-coordinates remai...