When a rotation and a reflection are performed as a composition of transformations on a figure, does the order of the transformations sometimes, always, or never affect the location of the final image? justify your argument.

Every weekday, mr. jones bikes from his home to his job. sometimes he rides along two roads, the long route that is shown by the solid lines. other times, he takes the shortcut shown by the dashed line. how many fewer kilometers does mr. jones bike when he takes the shortcut instead of the long route?