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AXYZ is rotated 180°.
What are the coordinates of point X'?

AXYZ is rotated 180°. What are the coordinates of point X'?-example-1
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Answer: (4, -1)

Reason:

When rotating a point 180 degrees around the origin, you use the rule


(x,y) \to (-x,-y)

We flip the sign of each coordinate from positive to negative or vice versa.

The point X is at the location (-4, 1). Rotating this 180 degrees will get us to X'(4, -1)

AXYZ is rotated 180°. What are the coordinates of point X'?-example-1
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