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When does a figure have rotation symmetry?

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It means that if you copy the shape on a piece of wax paper and you put the wax paper on the normal paper to match it up, you put a sharp object such as a pencil or pen and you rotate the wax paper you will be able to match the wax paper shape up to the normal paper shape even if the wax paper has been spun.

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A figure has rotational symmetry when it has 2 lines of symmetry. Wait, that's wrong. It's 2 or more lines of symmetry.

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