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What is the image of the point (4, -7) when reflected over the x-axis?

What is the image of the point (4,−7)(4, -7) when reflected over the xx-axis?

Answer and explanation

Answer: F: (4, 7)

Reflecting over the xx-axis keeps the xx-coordinate and changes the sign of the yy-coordinate: (x,y)→(x,−y)(x,y)\to(x,-y). So (4,−7)→(4,7)(4,-7)\to(4,7), choice F. The point moves straight up to the opposite side of the xx-axis, at the same horizontal position. Choice G ((−4,−7)(-4,-7)) which keeps yy but negates xx, a reflection over the yy-axis. Choice H ((−4,7)(-4,7)) negates both coordinates, a rotation of 180∘180^\circ. Choice J ((−7,4)(-7,4)) swaps the coordinates and changes a sign, a reflection over a diagonal line.

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