Prentice Hall Geometry

9-2 Reflections

Objective

To find reflection images of figures

A Solve It problem demonstrates finding reflections of images.
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In the Solve It, you visualized shapes flipping across lines. Notice that when a figure flips across a line, the preimage and its image are congruent and have opposite orientations. You can tell that two figures have opposite orientations if the corresponding vertices of the preimage and image read in opposite directions.

Triangle BUG, with vertex B on top and side UG on bottom, has the vertices reads clockwise. A reflection of the triangle across a vertical line, triangle B’U’G’, has vertex B’ on top and side U’G’ on bottom with vertices read counterclockwise.

Essential Understanding The size and shape of a geometric figure stay the same when you flip the figure across a line. Its orientation reverses.


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Table of Contents

Prentice Hall Geometry Chapter 1 Tools of Geometry Chapter 2 Reasoning and Proof Chapter 3 Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Chapter 4 Congruent Triangles Chapter 5 Relationships Within Triangles Chapter 6 Polygons and Quadrilaterals Chapter 7 Similarity Chapter 8 Right Triangles and Trigonometry Chapter 9 Transformations Chapter 10 Area Chapter 11 Surface Area and Volume Chapter 12 Circles Skills Handbook Reference Visual Glossary Selected Answers Index Acknowledgments