SOLUTION: How you would translate a point and then reflect it across an axis?

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Question 113016: How you would translate a point and then reflect it across an axis?

Answer by MathLover1(20850) About Me  (Show Source):
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A translation is like sliding the object over a certain distance.
We all know that we see our "reflection" in a mirror; it would look just the same on the other side of the line, and we have the line of symmetry where the picture is symmetrical in respect to the line.
Example: when we reflected the point=A, we sort of flipped it over that "mirror," or the line, so the reflection=A1 would be on the opposite side of the point A, like this:
___________A_____________|_____________A1_________
...............................................................|
...............................................................|
...............................................................^ the line of symmetry