Question

Point B' (6, -5) is the image of B (-5,-2) under a translation.

A translation by ____ units to the (right/left) and _____units (up/down)

Answer 1

A translation by -11 units to the left and 3 units up.

Explanation:

We initially start with the coordinates (-5, -2). Which is then translated to (6, -5). We know that if you translate it to the left once it will decrease by one in the x coordinate. So we can simply do 6-(-5) = 11 for the x coordinate, because -5 is a negative coordinate we know it moved to the left. For the y coordinate if it is moved up once then the coordinate will increase by one. So we can simply do -2-(-5) = 3, we can do this because we know that -5 > -2 meaning that it was translated up 3 units.

A translation by -11 units to the left and 3 units up.