The reflexive property of equality for real numbers states that a = a.
Think of a mirror. When you look in a reflection in a mirror, everything on your right hand looks like it is on the left hand of the reflection. This is a good way to remember the reflexive property.
|Figure 1: a reflected as a = a.|
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