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Transformations & Advanced Geometry

Reflections, rotations, inversions, projective techniques, and trigonometric Ceva/Menelaus

Key Concepts
  • Reflections and rotations are isometries (preserve distance)
  • Homothety scales a figure about a centre
  • Spiral similarity combines rotation and scaling
  • Transformations map circles and lines to circles and lines
Important Formulae
Homothety Ratio k scales all lengths by |k|
Rotation Preserves distances and angles about its centre
Quick Tips
  • Use a rotation or reflection to move parts of a figure into a usable position.
  • Homothety is ideal for problems involving tangent or nested circles.
Sample Practice Questions

  1. A rotation about a point preserves:

    • Distances
    • Only area
    • Only angles, not lengths
    • Nothing
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    Answer: Distances

  2. How many lines of symmetry does a square have?

    • 1
    • 2
    • 4
    • 8
    Show answer

    Answer: 4

  3. A rotation of 360° maps a figure to:

    • Its mirror image
    • Itself
    • A larger copy
    • A point
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    Answer: Itself

  4. The reflection of the point (3, 2) in the x-axis is:

    • (−3, 2)
    • (3, −2)
    • (−3, −2)
    • (2, 3)
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    Answer: (3, −2)

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