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Practice Form G
9-4 Compositions of Isometries
Find the image of each letter after the transformation Rm º Rℓ. Is the resulting
transformation a translation or a rotation? For a translation, describe the
distance and direction. For a rotation, tell the center of rotation and the angle of
rotation.
1. 2.

Graph ∆DML and its glide reflection image.

3. (Ry-axis ○ T<3, 0>)(∆DML) 4. (Ry=1 ○ T<–1, 0>)(∆DML)

5. (Rx=2 ○ T<0, 1>)(∆DML) 6. (Ry=x ○ T<3, 3>)(∆DML)

7. Lines ℓ and m intersect at point P and are perpendicular. If a point Q is reflected across ℓ
and then across m, what transformation rule describes this composition?

8. A triangle is reflected across line ℓ and then across line m. If this composition
of reflections is a translation, what is true about m and ℓ?
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Practice (continued) Form G

9-4 Compositions of Isometries

Graph AB and its image A'B' after a reflection first across ℓ1 and then across ℓ2.
Is the resulting transformation a translation or a rotation? For a translation,
describe the direction and distance. For a rotation, tell the center of rotation
and the angle of rotation.

9. A(–3, 4), B(–1, 0); 10. A(–5, 2), B(–3, 6);

ℓ1 : x = 1; ℓ1 : x = –2;
ℓ2 : y = –1 ℓ2 : x = 3

11. Open-Ended Draw a quadrilateral on a coordinate grid. Describe a

reflection, translation, rotation, and glide reflection. Then draw the image of
the quadrilateral for each transformation.

Identify each mapping as a translation, reflection, rotation, or glide reflection.

Write the rule for each translation, reflection, rotation, or glide reflection.
For glide reflections, write the rule as a composition of a translation and a
reflection.

12. ∆ABC → ∆DEF

13. ∆DEF → ∆GHF

14. ∆DEF → ∆IJK

15. ∆GHF → ∆IJK

P maps to P′(2, 3) by the given glide reflection.

What are the coordinates of P?

16. (Rx-axis º T <2, 0>)(P) 17. (Ry = x º T <3, 3>)(P)