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Identifying the Direction of Rotation
Point K is rotated 90°. The coordinate of the pre-image point K was (2, –6) and its image K’ is at the coordinate (−6, −2).

Find the direction of the rotation.


The direction of rotation was (clockwise or counterclockwise)

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Clockwise.

Explanation: A 90° clockwise rotation about the origin maps (x,y) to (y, −x). Applying this to (2, −6) gives (−6, −2), which matches K′.