Question

What is the image point of (-5,0) after a translation left 2 units and down 1 unit? Submit Answer attempt 1 out of 2

Answer 1

If you want to translate a point (x,y) to the left, you have to subtract the number of units (n) that you want to translate it from the original x coordinate, like this:

(x-u,y)

And if you want to translate a point (x,y) downwards, just subtract the number of units n you want to translate from the y coordinate, like this:

(x,y-n)

in this case, we have the point (-5,0) which image would be:

After a translation of 2 to the left

and with 1 unit down, this point would look like this:

(-5-2,0-1)=(-7,-1)