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Translations as vectors worksheet — GCSE Foundation
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Translations as vectors worksheet — GCSE Foundation
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- 1.A drone starts at the point (2, −3) on a coordinate grid. It flies by the vector and then by the vector . Write down the column vector that would take the drone straight back to its starting point.
- 2.The column vector describes a translation. Write down the movement it represents.
- 3.A translation moves the point (1, 1) to the point (9, 4). Write down the column vector of this translation.
- 4.A crane's hook starts at the point (3.4, 9.5) on a construction site plan measured in metres. It moves along the vector to pick up a beam, then along the vector to place it. Work out the single column vector that describes the hook's overall movement from its start position to where it places the beam.
- 5.A shape is translated by the vector , and one vertex of the image is at the point (1, 6). The original shape is instead translated by the vector . Work out the coordinates of the image of that same vertex under this second translation.
- 6.Vector A is and vector B is . Write down how vector B compares to vector A.
- 7.The point M(3, 8) is translated by the vector . Write down the coordinates of the image of M.
- 8.A student says the reverse of the translation vector is . Write down the correct reverse translation vector.
- 9.A shape is translated by the vector and then by the vector . Write down the single column vector that has the same effect as those two translations together.
- 10.A shape is translated by the vector . The point P(6, 1) lies on the shape. Write down the coordinates of the image of P.
- 11.A point is translated twice by the vector . Write down the single column vector that describes the overall translation.
- 12.The point A(2, 5) is translated to the point B(7, 3). Write down the column vector that describes this translation.
- 13.Write down the column vector that describes a translation of 5 units to the left and 3 units down.
- 14.A translation is described by the column vector . Write down a description of this translation in words, stating the horizontal and vertical movement.
- 15.In a phone game, a character starts at the point (−5, 2) on a grid. It moves by the vector to collect a coin. The player now wants the character's next single move to finish at the point (3, 0). Write down the column vector of that second move.
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