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2024 AMC 10AProblem 13P11-15~4 minPrint

Two transformations are said to commute if applying the first followed by the second gives the same result as applying the second followed by the first. Consider these four transformations of the coordinate plane:

  • a translation 22 units to the right,
  • a 9090^{\circ} -rotation counterclockwise about the origin,
  • a reflection across the xx -axis, and
  • a dilation centered at the origin with scale factor 2.2.

Of the 66 pairs of distinct transformations from this list, how many commute?

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