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Why rotation, reflection, and translation are rigid motion?

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Because the image is the same size as the pre-image
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Answer:

Reflections, translations, rotations, and combinations of these three transformations are "rigid transformations". ... A reflection is called a rigid transformation or isometry because the image is the same size and shape as the pre-image.

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