I would appreciate some help with my geometry homework

In summary, a group of Japanese physicists are studying planar lines that are solutions to equations with fixed real coefficients a, b, and c. They need to know the formulae for the images of these lines under translation by a vector B, rotation about a point (x0,y0) by 180 degrees, and rotation about a point (x0,y0) by 90 degrees. The formulae for translation involve adding the vector B, while the formulae for rotation involve changing the coordinates of the point and then translating it back. It is recommended to use a combination of translation and rotation concepts to solve these problems.
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carojay
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2. A group of Japanese physicists works on a project where planar lines are in the form of solutions to equations
a⋅x+b⋅y+c=0
where a , b , and c are fixed reals satisfying a2+b2≠0 . They need to know formulae for the images of the line a⋅x+b⋅y+c=0 in the following cases:
1. Under the translation by a vector B=[u,v] ,
2. Under rotation about a point (x0,y0) by 180 degrees,
3. Under rotation about a point (x0,y0) by 90 degrees.
Please provide those formulae and a justification for them.

I know for number 1, you basically just add the vector B.
for 2 and 3 I do not know whether to use point slope form and just change the slope or if I need to change the coordinates to (-y,x) for 90 degree rotation and (-x,-y) for 180 degree rotation but those are for rotation about the origin and my problem does not state that. Does the slope for a 180 degree rotation go back to the same slope? I am really confused on which direction to take.
 
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Homework questions should be posted in the homework forum. ;)
 
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Sorry! I'm new and I looked for that but couldn't find it!
 
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carojay said:
I need to change the coordinates to (-y,x) for 90 degree rotation and (-x,-y) for 180 degree rotation but those are for rotation about the origin and my problem does not state that.

Why don't you use a combination of the things that you know. I think the point of the problem is that you know how to translate the line. Thus, you know how to move the point ##(x_0, y_0)## to ##(0,0)##. Next, you say that you know how to do rotation about the origin. You can apply that concept. Finally, you just have to translate ##(0,0)## back to ##(x_0, y_0)##.
 

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