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The point M(-6, -4) is translated 2 units right. What are the coordinates of the resulting point, M′?

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Answer:

(-4, -4)

Explanation:

On a 2D graph, moving to the right means going up the x axis, to the left means down the x axis, up means up the y axis, and down means down the y axis.

The point is translated 2 units to the right. This means that it is going up the x axis by two units. As it is going up, we can say that it is increasing. Therefore, on a coordinate (x,y), going up the x axis means we add to the x value. For the point (-6, -4), we add 2 to the x value, or -6, to get -6+2 = -4 as our new x value.

Our new end value is (-4, -4)

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