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Rotation Use your mouse to move the red point to the position with coordinates (4,2). Now rotate the green point through 90º. What are the coordinates of this new position? x: y: Result:

Please enable Java for an interactive construction (with Cinderella). Try other starting positions for the red point. What happens? What happens if you make the angle of rotation 180º?

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