Reflecting shapes

- [Instructor] We're asked to plot the image of quadrilateral ABCD so that's this blue quadrilateral here. Under a reflection across the X axis. So that's the X axis. And we have our little tool here on Khan Academy where we can construct a quadrilateral. And we need to construct a reflection of triangle A, B, C, D. And so what we can do is, let me scroll down a little bit. So we can see the entire coordinate axis. We want to find the reflection across the X axis. So I'm gonna reflect point by point. And actually, let me just move this whole thing down here so that we can so that we can see what is going on a little bit clearer. So let's just first reflect point let me move this a little bit out of the way. So let's first reflect Point A. So we're gonna reflect across the X axis. A is four units above the X axis. One, two, three, four. So, its image, A prime we could say, would be four units below the X axis. So, one, two, three, four. So let's make this right over here A, A prime. I'm having trouble putting the let's see if I move these other characters around. Okay, there you go. So this is gonna be my A prime. Now let me try B. B is two units above the X axis. So B prime is gonna have the same X coordinate but it's gonna be two units below the X axis. So let's make this our B. So this is our B right over here. Now let's make this our C. C, right here, has the X coordinate of negative five. A d a Y coordinate of negative four. Now C prime would have the same X coordinate but instead of being four units below the X axis, it will be four units above the X axis. So it would have the coordinates negative five comma positive four. So this is going to be our C here. So this goes to negative five, one, two, three, positive four. And then last but not least, D. And so let's see, D right now is at negative two comma negative one. If we reflect across the X axis instead of being one unit below the X axis, we'll be one unit above the X axis. And we'll keep our X coordinate of negative two. And so, there you have it. We have constructed the reflection of ABCD across the X axis. And what's interesting about this example is that, the original quadrilateral is on top of the X axis. So you an kind of see this top part of the quadrilateral gets reflected below it. And this bottom part of the quadrilateral gets reflected above it. And then you can see that indeed do they indeed do look like reflections flipped over the X axis.