Geometry & Figures

Problem

Center of rotation stays fixed

In three cases (A), (B), (C), a green figure is made by rotating an orange figure clockwise about a shared red pivot point. We must find each rotation angle (between 0 and 360 degrees) and name the case rotated through the largest angle.
(A) (B) (C)
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How to solve
Strategy Draw a Diagram — Each angle is found by drawing the ray from the pivot along a matching feature of the orange figure and of the green figure, then measuring the clockwise turn between them on the grid. Comparing the three measured angles identifies the largest. (Tool 3 is used on the genuinely finite set of three labeled cases, not on answer choices.)
1STEP 1

Measure the turn in (A)

Pick a matching arm on the orange and green figures. In (A) the orange arm points straight up from the red pivot and the corresponding green arm points straight to the right. Turning straight-up to straight-right clockwise is a quarter turn.

(A) = 90°
2STEP 2

Measure the turn in (B)

In (B) the orange arm and the matching green arm point in exactly opposite directions across the pivot (orange up, green straight down). Opposite directions are a half turn.

(B) = 180°
3STEP 3

Measure the turn in (C)

In (C) the orange arm points to the right, and the green figure is tilted on a slant past straight-down (between a half turn and a three-quarter turn going clockwise). This slanted position is a larger clockwise turn than both 90 and 180 degrees - roughly 225 degrees.

(C) ≈ 225°
4STEP 4

Compare and pick the largest

Compare the three clockwise angles: (A) 90 degrees, (B) 180 degrees, (C) about 225 degrees. The largest is (C).

225° greater than 180° greater than 90°
Answer
(C) - rotated clockwise through the largest angle (about 225 degrees, versus 90 degrees in (A) and 180 degrees in (B)).
All three angles lie strictly between 0 and 360 degrees as required, and they increase from the smallest visible turn (A) to the half turn (B) to the slanted, furthest-swung (C), so naming (C) as the largest is consistent with the picture.
Takeaway

Match an arm on each figure and measure the clockwise turn at the pivot - the figure that swings furthest around (C) used the biggest angle!

  • Measure the turn in (A)
  • Measure the turn in (B)
  • Measure the turn in (C)
  • Compare and pick the largest
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