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Description: A Multiplication Based Logic Puzzle
Today many people are reflecting on the plight of elephants throughout the world and what we can do to protect them and their habitats . Yesterday I created an image of a lone elephant in Desmos:
Today’s puzzle is to take the Desmos Elephant image and transform it as I have done below. There is no need to retype all the ordered pairs that made the elephant. One of the reflections was made simply by typing “polygon(x1,-y1)” below all the order pairs in the Desmos image . Can you determine which reflection that was? What was typed inside the parenthesis to make the other two elephants?
How would the elephant be transformed if you typed “polygon(-y1,x1)”, “polygon(x1+5,y1)” or “polygon(2×1,2y1)” below the ordered pairs in Desmos ? Can you figure out a way to shrink the elephant and make it upside down in the first quadrant? I hope you will take the time to check out these transformations and experiment with some of your own.
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