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Cong from St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School worked hard at this problem. He sent us these pictures to show the flips:

Horizontal flip:

horizontal flip

Vertical flip:

vertical flip

First diagonal flip:

digaonal flip

I'm not sure this first diagonal flipped one is quite right - have another go.

Second diagonal flip:

diagonal flip2

And for the triangle, here is the horizontal flip:

horizontal flip triangle

The vertical flip:

vertical flip triangle

First diagonal flip:

diagonal flip triangle

And finally, the second digaonal flip:

diagaonl flip triangle2

Very well done, Cong!


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