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What is the result of reflecting the point over the y-axis in the coordinate plane?

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Reflecting a point

over the y-axis geometrically is the same as negating the x-coordinate of the ordered pair to obtain

.

Thus, since our initial point was

and we want to reflect it over the y-axis, we obtain the reflection by negating the first term of the ordered pair to get

.

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