Question

1. At the half time show, a marching band marched in formation. The lead drummer started at a point with coordinates (-2,-5) and moved 3 steps up and 1 step right.

Write a rule to describe the translation.
What were the coordinates of the drummer's final position?

Answer 1

Question

At the half time show, a marching band marched in formation. The lead drummer started at a point with coordinates (-2, -5) and moved 3 steps up and 1 step right.

Write a rule to describe the translation.

What were the coordinates of the drummer's final position?

Solution

The x value of the coordinate is left or right and the y value of the coordinate is up or down. The rule is (initial x-position + x-displacement, initial y-position + y-displacement).

The current coordinates of the lead drummer are (-2 + 1[step]; -5 + 3[step]). Suppose that the length of 1 step equals 1.

Answer

The current coordinates are (-1; -2).