ACT Math · Coordinate geometry
What is the image of the point (4, -7) when reflected over the x-axis?
What is the image of the point when reflected over the -axis?
Answer and explanation
Answer: F: (4, 7)
Reflecting over the -axis keeps the -coordinate and changes the sign of the -coordinate: . So , choice F. The point moves straight up to the opposite side of the -axis, at the same horizontal position. Choice G () which keeps but negates , a reflection over the -axis. Choice H () negates both coordinates, a rotation of . Choice J () swaps the coordinates and changes a sign, a reflection over a diagonal line.
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