Question 14
MediumOriginal questionIf the line MN under this grid is the surface of water, which figure is the grid's water image? The grid has 8 shaded squares.
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
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, 1), (5, 2), (5, 3), (5, 4) (row, column) move to (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (3, 2).
Figure 4 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 3 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
- 70 s
- Your timeYours
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