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Goddamnit.

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It took me up until reading your comment to get this one. “Is it that the scaling transformation only scaled the y-axis?? Oh…”

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I teach these basic transformations as part of my middle school math classes, and I was completely loss as to why they didn’t include a reflection, but then I realized a reflection wouldn’t be that interesting because it could be indistinguishable from a translation.

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I was at a loss too as to where they source the “most common” when skewing is also extremely common

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