2. Reflections
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Consider glide reflections as well as compositions of translations and reflections that are not glide reflections.
Not commutative.
However, any time the translation isn't parallel to the line of reflection, the order in which you perform the transformations does matter. Consider the following combinations of transformations: Translation:& (x,y)→ (x+8,y+1) Reflection:& in the x-axis Start with the green triangle. Performing the translation first, we end up with the red triangle as our image. However, reversing the order of transformations, the purple triangle will be our image.