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Point O is the center of regular pentagon ABCDE. Find the image of the given point for the given rotation.r (144°,0) (A)The image of A is

Point O is the center of regular pentagon ABCDE. Find the image of the given point-example-1
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The given point is the center, denoted as 0. This point is invariant under any rotation, this means that it remain in the same position. Then, the image after a 144 rotation is

Then, the answer after the 144 rotation is:

where letter A goes to D, B goes to E and so on.

Thats because each interior angle measure 72 degrees as shown:

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