Question

PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

Please SHOW your work. Okay, not subtracted 4 from each x-value and added 3 to each y-value? Why would you NOT connect the vertices? Don't we want a triangle? Did we do anything to increase or decrease the length of any side?

Answer 2

The new coordinates would be S' is (-2, 4), T' is (-2,6) and U' is (-4,2)

Answer 3

Stop tagging people and start showing your work. How do the two triangles relate to each other? Are there SIMILARities? Are there differences?

Answer 4

@tkhunny I'm tagging people because I need an explanation. I can't show my work if I don't know how to solve it in the first place /: I'm trying to see if there are similarities and differences

Answer 5

That's incorrect. I know you have SOMETHING or you would not have performed the translation well. Now is the time for you to think on geometry. If you pick up a triangle and drop it somewhere else, what happened to the shape of the triangle?

Answer 6

All the question is asking me is to show the new coordinates and identify characteristics I would find if the corresponding vertices were connected with line segments

Answer 7

Well, the triangle would most likely change, or translate right? I'm supposing the same occurs in this case @tkhunny

Answer 8

Just pick it up and put it down somewhere else. Why would it change?

Answer 9

It would change because it was moved, it isn't in the same place it was before @tkhunny

Answer 10

That is not correct. That doesn't change the triangle. That changes only the triangle's location. If you drive a car from New York to Chicago, do you then have a different car? Or is it now a different car since it is a Chicago-car, rather than a New-York-car?

Answer 11

No, it's the same car, just in a different place @tkhunny

Answer 12

There you go. Since we didn't twist, stretch, or even rotate this triangle, or poke holes in it or anything, wouldn't the two triangles be congruent?

Answer 13

Yes, they would be congruent! But what does this have to do with the characteristics if the corresponding vertices were connected with line segments? @tkhunny

Answer 14

If the vertices were connected to the line segments, wouldn't the characteristics remain the same? @tkhunny

Answer 15

"Describe what characteristics you would find if the corresponding vertices were connected with line segments"

It is not asking about characteristics of vertices. It is telling you to construct a new triangle, given the vertices. It's about triangles, not vertices. The vertices are just to tell us where it is.

Answer 16

Vertices are a bit difficult to characterize. They are just points. The definition of a point is accepted axiomatically in most early cases of your journey through mathematics.

Answer 17

I have learned about points and vertices. So in this case the new coordinates to the triangle has the same lengths and angles but is offset from the original? @tkhunny

Answer 18

@tkhunny Thank you for your guidance but I just submitted it. I tried my best to solve it on my own.

Answer 19

It might shift imo! depending on how high it is when you drop it

Answer 20

No, it's a triangle. It's not subject to physical forces. They are just points and line segments.

Answer 21

alright fine, your right