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i wont give the answer but i will tell you how to solve

Opening Exercise

The original triangle, labeled A, has been reflected across the first line, resulting in the image labeled B. Reflect the image across the second line. Carlos looked at the image of the reflection across the second line and said, “That’s not the image of triangle A after two reflections; that’s the image of triangle A after a rotation!” Do you agree? Why or why not?

Discussion

When you reflect a figure across a line, the original figure and its image share a line of symmetry, which we have called the line of reflection. When you reflect a figure across a line and then reflect the image across a line that intersects the first line, your final image is a rotation of the original figure. The center of rotation is the point at which the two lines of reflection intersect. The angle of rotation is determined by connecting the center of rotation to a pair of corresponding vertices on the original figure and the final image. The figure above is a 210° rotation (or 150° clockwise rotation).

Exploratory Challenge

Line of symmetry of a figure: This is an isosceles triangle. By definition, an isosceles triangle has at least two congruent sides. A line of symmetry of the triangle can be drawn from the top vertex to the midpoint of the base, decomposing the original triangle into two congruent right triangles. This line of symmetry can be thought of as a reflection across itself that takes the isosceles triangle to itself. Every point of the triangle on one side of the line of symmetry has a corresponding point on the triangle on the other side of the line of symmetry, given by reflecting the point across the line. In particular, the line of symmetry is equidistant from all corresponding pairs of points. Another way of thinking about line symmetry is that a figure has line symmetry if there exists a line (or lines) such that the image of the figure when reflected over the line is itself.

Does every figure have a line of symmetry?

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