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What transformation that will change the orientation of a figure but not the orientation of the vertices?

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A transformation that changes the orientation of a figure but not the orientation of the vertices is called a "reflection."

A reflection is a transformation that flips a figure over a line, called the "line of reflection." The line of reflection can be a line on a coordinate plane, or it can be a line in the space of the figure. The transformed figure, or the image, is a mirror image of the original figure, with respect to the line of reflection. The line of reflection is the perpendicular bisector of the line connecting any two non-adjacent vertices of the figure, then the figure's orientation remains unchanged but it's flipped over that line.

For example, if you reflect a square over its diagonal line, the square will be flipped but its vertices will still be in the same order, so the orientation won't change.

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