Transformations - Reflections

A reflection is like a mirror image because in a reflection, the size nor the shape changes, only the position. You could reflect an image over the x-axis or y-axis without knowing the exact rules by using equidistant, which means that the reflected figure has to be the equal distance from the x or y-axis as the original figure. The original figure and it's reflection are exactly the same distance from the line of symmetry so that the figures will stay the same.We could determine the line of symmetry if we are given the points of the original figure and the image, all we would have to do is take the space between them and divide it in half, and that's were the line of symmetry would go. When looking at two figures, we know which one is the transformation because the transformation has an apostrophe over the top, for example, the points on the original figure would be labeld A, B, and C and the transformation would be A', B', and C'.