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Which of the following is a congruence transformation?
Reflecting
What is the transformation that moves points the same distance and in the same direction?
translation
Which transformation moves points perpendicularly across a specified line a distance equal to its original distance from the specified line?
Reflection
What is an isometry?
A isometry is a transformation where distance (aka size) is preserved. In a dilation, the size is being altered, so no, it is not an isometry.
Is a rotation an isometric?
Rotations, reflections, and translations are all isometries while a dilation isn't because it doesn't preserve distance
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