Question 7
EasyOriginal questionWhich figure shows the reflection in water of this pattern of 6 shaded squares, with the water surface along MN below it?
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: C
Explanation
Water along MN, below the grid, swaps top and bottom but not left and right: a square in row r moves to row and stays in its column.
So the shaded squares (3, 2), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (5, 2), (5, 3) (row, column) move to (1, 2), (1, 3), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (3, 2).
Figure 3 shows exactly these squares.
Worth noting
Figure 1 is the mirror image (left and right swapped), Figure 2 is the grid turned upside down, and Figure 4 is the grid given a quarter turn. A water image flips top to bottom and nothing else.
- Concept
- Water image: reflection in a horizontal line
- Typical timeTypical
- 40 s
- Your timeYours
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