A transformation is defined by
Find the image of the point under .
The point is mapped to under . Find the coordinates of .
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A transformation has matrix
Describe the transformation as a composition of an enlargement and a rotation about the origin.
circle has radius and area . Find the radius and area of its image under .
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A point is rotated anticlockwise through radians about the centre .
Find the affine rule for this rotation in the form .
Find the image of .
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The transformation is a reflection in the horizontal line .
Determine in the form .
Find the equation of the image of the line under .
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Two affine transformations are defined by
The transformation is applied first, followed by .
Find a single affine rule for the composition .
Find the final image of the point .
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Let be a horizontal stretch with scale factor , and let be a reflection in the line .
Find the matrix representing followed by , and hence find the image of .
Find the matrix representing followed by , and hence find the image of .
State what your answers demonstrate about the composition of matrix transformations.
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A triangle has vertices , and . It is transformed by
Find the coordinates of the image vertices , and .
Find the area of triangle .
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An iterative algorithm generates a triangular fractal with vertices , and . At each iteration, the current point is moved halfway towards one of the three vertices.

Write down the three affine transformations that move a point halfway towards , and , respectively.
The probabilities of selecting , and are , and , respectively. Find the expected number of times each transformation is selected during iterations.
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A graphics program enlarges a point about the origin with scale factor , then rotates it anticlockwise through radians, and finally translates it by .
Find a single affine rule for the combined transformation.
Find the exact image of the point .
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An affine transformation has the form . It maps
Determine the matrix and the translation column .
Find the image of under .
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A region of area square units is transformed by
Its image has area square units and its orientation is reversed.
Find the value of .
The image is then enlarged about the origin with scale factor . Find the area of the final image.
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A transformation is defined by
Show that every image point lies on the line .
Explain why this transformation has no inverse and maps every two-dimensional region to an image of area zero.
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A point is generated iteratively by
Find .
Determine the limiting position of as , and justify that a limit exists.
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An affine transformation is defined by
Find the inverse transformation in affine form.
point is mapped to by . Find the original point.
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A transformation is defined by
Determine the fixed point of .
region with area square units is transformed four times by . Find the area after the fourth transformation.
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A design is transformed by first reflecting it in the line , then applying a horizontal stretch with scale factor , and finally translating it by .
Determine a single affine rule for the combined transformation.
State the area scale factor and whether the transformation preserves or reverses orientation.
The image of a point is . Find the coordinates of the original point.
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A mapping program transforms the vertices , and of a triangular region to , and respectively. The transformation has the form .

Write down the translation column .
Determine the matrix .
Find the area of triangle .
State whether orientation is preserved or reversed, giving a reason.
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A robot rotates every point anticlockwise through radians about an unknown centre . The point is mapped to .
Write down the matrix for the rotation.
Find the translation column when the rotation is written as .
Determine the coordinates of .
region of area square units is transformed by . Find its image area and justify your answer using the determinant.
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A logo is first stretched horizontally by scale factor and then reflected in the line through the origin making an angle of with the positive -axis.
Write down the matrices and for the stretch and reflection respectively.
Find the single matrix representing the complete transformation.
Find the image of the point .
part of the logo has area . Find its image area and state whether its orientation is preserved or reversed.
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An affine transformation is defined by A triangle is mapped to a triangle with vertices , and .
Find the inverse of the matrix part of .
Hence write down an affine rule for .
Find the three vertices of the original triangle.
Verify, using areas, that the determinant gives the correct area scale factor.
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The position of a point is generated by the recurrence
Find .
Find .
Determine the limiting position of and justify that the sequence converges.
region initially has area square units. Find its area after five applications of the transformation.
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An iterative design uses the vertices , , and . At each step, the current point is moved one third of the way from a selected vertex towards its current position. Equivalently, for a selected vertex ,
Write down in affine matrix form.
Starting from , find the point obtained by selecting and then .
small region of area square units undergoes six iterations, with any of the four transformations selected at each step. Find its area after the sixth iteration.
The probabilities of selecting , , and are , , and respectively. Determine the expected numbers of selections of and in iterations, and explain how changing these probabilities affects the design.
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A region of area square units is transformed by Its image has area square units and its orientation is reversed.
Part (a)
Show that .
The image of has a positive -coordinate. Determine .
Part (b)
The image is then rotated and enlarged by a scale factor of . Find the area of the final image.
State whether the final image has the same orientation as the original region. Justify your answer.
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A circular region has centre and radius . It is transformed by

Find the centre of the image.
Find the lengths of the horizontal and vertical semiaxes of the image.
Determine an equation of the boundary of the image ellipse.
Find the area of the image, giving your answer in exact form.
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The transformation is a reflection in the line .

Describe a sequence of translations and a reflection in that produces .
Hence determine in the form .
Find the equation of the image of the line under .
State the area scale factor and the effect on orientation.
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A theatre projects a rectangular image with vertices , , and . The projector applies the affine transformation

Find the coordinates of , the image of .
Find the area of the projected image.
mark on the projected image has coordinates . Determine its coordinates in the original rectangle.
The projector is recalibrated by replacing in the matrix by a parameter . Determine all values of for which the projected rectangle has area square units, and state which value reverses its orientation.
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A light on a rotating fairground ride is initially at . During each step, the vector from to the light is multiplied by and rotated anticlockwise through , where .

Write the transformation in the form .
Find .
Determine the first value of for which the light is less than unit from .
small triangular plate attached to the light undergoes the same affine transformation as the light at each step and has initial area square units. Determine its area after steps and hence find the first step at which its area is less than square unit. Explain why the rotation does not affect this result.
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A textile motif is processed using a horizontal stretch
and a reflection in the line . The motif contains the point .

Find the matrix and image of when is applied first, followed by .
Find the matrix and image of when is applied first, followed by .
The original motif has area square units. Compare the areas and orientations of the two images.
Replace by a non-zero horizontal scale factor . Determine the values of for which , and interpret the result geometrically.
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A camera sensor applies a horizontal stretch with scale factor , a vertical compression with scale factor , and then an anticlockwise rotation through angle . A rectangular sensor region has vertices , , and .

Write down the combined transformation matrix .
Find and interpret its value.
For , determine the coordinates of the image of .
technician reverses the order, rotating first and then applying the two stretches. Determine all values of in for which the two orders produce the same transformation.
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A digital image occupies the rectangular region , , where coordinates are measured in pixels. It is transformed by

Find the images of and .
Find the image of .
Determine the dimensions and area of the smallest axis-aligned rectangle containing the transformed image.
Find the actual area of the transformed image and determine the percentage of the bounding rectangle that is not occupied by the image.
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A transformation is defined by
Show that every image point lies on the line .
Explain why has no inverse.
The unit square has vertices , , and . Determine the endpoints of its image and find the length of the resulting line segment.
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Let represent a horizontal stretch of scale factor , and let represent an anticlockwise rotation through about the origin.
Find the matrix representing the stretch followed by the rotation.
Find the matrix representing the rotation followed by the stretch.
Determine all points whose images are the same under the two compositions.
Compare the area scale factors of the two compositions.
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To align two medical images, a similarity transformation maps to and to . The transformation consists of an enlargement, a rotation and a translation.
Determine the enlargement scale factor and the angle and direction of rotation.
Find a single affine rule for the alignment.
The same transformation can be described as an enlargement and rotation about a common fixed centre, with no separate translation. Determine this centre.
State the area scale factor of the alignment.
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A point is generated iteratively by
Describe geometrically the matrix transformation .
Determine the fixed point of the affine transformation.
Show that and hence find .
Find the least value of for which the distance from to is less than .
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A digital image is rotated clockwise through , then stretched horizontally by scale factor and vertically by scale factor , and finally translated by pixels.
Find the matrix representing the rotation followed by the stretches.
Find the final image of the pixel at , giving coordinates to three significant figures.
The pixel is mapped to approximately . Describe how an inverse calculation recovers the original pixel and verify its coordinates.
An original image region contains square pixels. Estimate the area of its transformed image.
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To align two aerial photographs, three landmarks have coordinates , and in the first photograph. Their corresponding coordinates in the second photograph are , and . An affine transformation is used.
Landmark | First photo x | First photo y | Second photo x | Second photo y |
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A | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
B | 5 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
C | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
D' | — | — | 12 | 8 |
Use the images of and to determine the first column of .
Hence determine and .
lake has area in the first photograph. Find its represented area in the second photograph and state whether its orientation is preserved.
fourth landmark is recorded as in the second photograph. Determine its coordinates in the first photograph. Explain why a unique answer exists.
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A fractal is generated inside the unit square. At each stage, every square is replaced by four copies, each with linear scale factor , positioned at the four corners. The lower-left corner transformations include
The other two transformations are denoted by and .

Write down and for the upper-left and upper-right copies respectively.
Find the image of after applying , then , then .
Find the total area of all squares at stage , where the original square is stage .
Determine the first stage for which the total area is less than square units.
point is generated by repeatedly applying , starting at the origin. Determine its limiting position and justify that the limit exists.
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A logo is transformed by the parameter-dependent matrix
followed by a translation through . The original logo has area square units.

Find the determinant of .
Determine the values of for which the logo collapses onto a line.
For , show that every image point lies on a straight line and find the equation of this line.
Determine the intervals of for which the image has area greater than square units and preserves orientation.
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A robotic camera repeatedly corrects the position of a target using

Find and .
Determine the fixed point of the correction.
Show that , where is the matrix in the recurrence.
Use technology to determine the least value of for which both coordinates of are within of the corresponding coordinates of . Justify why the sequence converges.
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A cartographer investigates the family of map transformations
A protected region has area .

Find the determinant of the transformation matrix.
Determine the values of for which the map preserves area.
For , find the image area and state whether orientation is preserved.
Determine the interval of values of for which the image area is less than .
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A kaleidoscope uses two mirrors through the origin. Mirror lies along the -axis and mirror makes an anticlockwise angle with the -axis. Reflection in is applied first, followed by reflection in .

Write reflection in as a composition involving rotations and reflection in the -axis.
For , find the image of after both reflections.
Show that, for general , the composition is a rotation through .
For , determine the least positive number of repeated pairs of reflections required to return every point to its original position. Justify your answer.
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A medical scan is aligned with a reference image using a rotation, a positive enlargement and a translation. The transformation has the form , where , the rotation and enlargement are about the origin, and the translation is applied last. In the scan, landmarks are and . In the reference image, they are and .

Determine the enlargement scale factor and angle of rotation.
Determine the translation column.
third landmark is . Find its predicted position in the reference image.
tumour region has area in the scan. Find its area in the reference image. The observed position of the third landmark is . Calculate the alignment error and comment on the suitability of the model if errors below coordinate units are considered acceptable.
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A stage-lighting system uses a horizontal shear
and a vertical shear
A square beam has area square units. The graph illustrates the particular case ; the following results should be obtained for general and .

Find the matrix when is applied first, followed by .
Find the matrix when the order is reversed.
Determine the area and orientation of the beam after either composition.
Determine the condition on and for the two shears to commute, and interpret the condition.
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A snowflake boundary begins with the line segment from to . At each iteration, every segment is replaced by four segments, each one third as long. The middle two segments form the sides of an outward equilateral triangle.

Derive the exact coordinates of the three intermediate vertices after the first iteration, giving the geometric calculations used.
Write affine rules for the two required similarity transformations mapping the original segment onto the second and third segments. Each rule must scale by , rotate through for the second segment or for the third, and then translate.
Show that the total boundary length after iterations is .
Find the least value of for which the boundary length exceeds units.
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An affine transformation is defined by
Show that the matrix part represents a reflection.
Find the angle made by the reflection axis of the matrix part with the positive -axis.
Determine the equation of the fixed line of the full affine transformation .
Show that applying twice returns every point to its original position.
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A surveying program reflects points in the line . Let , and let denote an anticlockwise rotation through about the origin.

Explain why reflection in the line has matrix .
Find this matrix exactly.
Determine an affine rule for reflection in , and hence find the image of .
Show that applying this affine transformation twice returns every point to its original position.
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A fractal path begins with a unit segment from to . Each segment is replaced by four segments of scale factor , with successive directions , , and relative to the original segment. Let denote rotation through . Call the initial unit segment stage 0; stage is obtained after replacements.

Write the matrix used for the second replacement segment.
Determine the translation required so that this second segment begins at .
Show that the four replacement segments have resultant displacement .
Find the total length after stage and determine the first stage at which it exceeds . Explain why the endpoints remain unchanged at every stage.
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An animated particle follows the affine recurrence
Let .

Find .
Determine the fixed point of the recurrence.
Show that
Determine the first value of for which is within units of . Hence describe the long-term motion of the particle.
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