"Transformations - Reflections"

When looking at the two figures, how do we know which one is the transformation?

Reflection is like an mirror image because it is the same figure and it has he same distances from each other the only the us that it is in a different location. The way you can reflect an image over the x-axis or the y-axis with out knowing the exact rule is that if you know that the figure is over the x-axis the y coordinate is changing and if the figure is over the y-axis the x coordinate will change. The original figure an its reflection has an exact equal distance from the line of symmetry its like looking in a mirror its the same figure but the distance stays the same. If we were given the points of the original figure and the image we could determined the line of symmetry because its going to be the exact same figure but in a different quadrant. The way you know which figure is the translation is because the original figure has nothing on it like the translational figure as "apostrophes".