Ordered Pair Notation

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I know that ordered pair notation is (x,y)...but how do I use ordered pair notation to represent each translation...like this one

I am given a red and blue segment on a coordinate plane, the blue figure is the image of the red figure...one of the points of the red figure is (-1, 3) and the other is (4,2)...one of the endpoints of the blue figure is (0,0) and the other is (5,-1)...how do I do this?....I have been out of school for two weeks showing my horse...and I have to do this on my own...Any help is appreciated!
 
Are the figures "segments", or are the segments just part of the figures? Are the "points" of the red figure related to the "endpoints" of the blue figure?

(We can't see the picture you're looking at, so you will need to describe the picture in full detail.)

You ask "how do I do this?" What is the "this" that you are doing? Are you needing to come up with a rule for x and y that moves one point (a blue to a red, or a red to a blue?) from one location to another? Or are you using matrices? Or something else?

(We can't see your book or its examples, so you will need to describe what your book is asking for.)

Thank you.

Eliz.
 
The segments are line segments. The points I listed are endpoints of those segements. (These segments are translations) The book tells me to use ordered pair notation to represent each translation. I apolozige for being unclear! I dont understand how to use ordered pair notation to rep. each translation....
 
Which red point corresponds to which blue point? Which color is the "original", and which is the translated image?

Looking at an example from your text, describe the sort of translation pictured, and the sort of "ordered pair" that was given as the answer.

Thank you.

Eliz.
 
Which red point corresponds to which blue point?

Please include information from an example with a known solution, so we can see what sort of formatting your book is expecting.

Eliz.
 
I'm sorry, but I can't see your book. I can't see what comes first and what comes second. I can't see what point is meant to correspond to what point. And I can't see what "<1, -3>" is meant to mean or to apply to.

Please provide a full description of what is going on. Thank you.

Eliz.
 
I dont know how to explain this better..my book says that in ea. diagram, the blue figure is teh image of the red figure. Use ordered pair notation to represent each translation...

On the 1st one I am given a coordinate plane with a red segment (either segment is labeled) with the endpoints of (-1,3) and (4,2)...the blue segment is below it and its endpoints are (0,0) and ((5, -1)...In the back of the book, it states that the answer is <1, -3> But I dont know what this answer means...


Is it like I go down three and over one to get the red segment above the blue segment?
 
Thanks for the giving us the book’s answer.
It clear that the vector <1,−3> takes (−1,3) to (0,0).
It also takes (4,2) to (5,−1).
But I have no idea what this has to do with your question.
 
If <1,−3> is the translation vector then start a point (x,y).
The translated point is (x’,y’) where x’=x+1 & y’=y−3.
OR, the pairs are (x+1,y−3).
Now again, I not sure if this has anything to do with your problem.
 
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