Kianna lives in a town where the streets are laid out in a grid. She uses a coordinate plane to draw a map of the town, with her
school at the origin. Kianna plots points for the locations of her house and her best friend Jo's house on the grid. Kianna's house is at the point (4, 2).
Kianna's and Jo's houses are reflections of each other across both axes.
1. What are the coordinates of Jo's house? Explain how you know in the space below.
2. Kianna walks from her house to Jo's house. She first walks west and then walks south. How many blocks west does Kianna walk? How many blocks south?
Write your answer in the space below.
3. Elena's house is a reflection of Jo's house across the x-axis.
What are the coordinates of Elena's house? Explain in the space below.
4. Kianna says that Elena's house is actually a reflection of her house across the y-axis.
Is Kianna right? Explain
Answer:1. The coordinates of Jo’s house are (-4,-2).
Step-by-step explanation:
1. Since Jo’s house is reflected across both axes, we must reflect the coordinates two times. So we can reflect the coordinates of Kianna’s house across the x-axis first, which would give you the coordinates (4,-2). Then we reflect (4,-2) across the y axis, giving us the coordinates (-4,-2). So Jo’s house has the coordinates (-4,-2).
