Making Predictions with Transformations Quick Check

Question

If you apply the geometric description of reflections across parallel lines, what transformation can you predict will be part of a composition transformation?

a translation
a dilation
a rotation
a reflection

Answer 1

When applying the geometric description of reflections across parallel lines, the resulting transformation can be predicted as a translation.

This is because reflecting an object across two parallel lines is equivalent to translating it perpendicular to those lines by twice the distance between the lines.

So the correct answer is: a translation.