Translation preserves distance
- Author:
- Mathguru, Walch Education
- Topic:
- Translation
Given the transformation of a translation , and the points and , show that the transformation of a translation is isometric by calculating the distances, or lengths, of and .
- Plot the points of the preimage.
- Transform the points.
- Plot the image points.
- Calculate the distance, , of each segment from the preimage and the image and compare them.