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Explain why any Circle would have an infinite number of lines of reflectional will carry the circle onto itself.

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Any line that passes through the center of the circle will reflect the circle onto itself. Given that there is an infinite number of lines that pass through the center of a given circle, then an infinite number of lines of reflection will carry the circle onto itself.

In the above picture, there are 3 lines of reflection, but you can add another one, and then another one, and so on. This means that there is an infinite number of them

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