Algebra 1 : Equations of Lines

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Example Questions

Example Question #69 : How To Find The Midpoint Of A Line Segment

Find the midpoint of the line segment with points  and .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

In order to solve this problem, you must know the midpoint formula. 

The first step is to plug in the coordinates of the endpoints given into the formula.

.

Do the addition written, and you would end up with .

This simplifies to .

The midpoint of the line segment with coordinates  and  is .

Example Question #901 : Functions And Lines

Find the midpoint of the line segment with the following endpoints:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Finding the midpoint of a line segment only requires that we find the midpoint, or average of both the x and y components. In order to do that, we use the following formula:

For the points (-3,-4) and (17,6) plug in the numbers and solve:

 

This gives a final answer of  

Example Question #662 : Equations Of Lines

Find the midpoint of  and .

Possible Answers:

 

Correct answer:

 

Explanation:

Write the formula for the midpoint.  The midpoint is an order pair.

Substitute the points.

Simplify the expressions.

The midpoint is located at:  

Example Question #663 : Equations Of Lines

Find the midpoint of the line containing endpoings (-1, -1) and (-3, 9).

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the midpoint, we use the midpoint formula

where  and  are the endpoints.  

 

Given the endpoints (-1, -1) and (-3, 9), we can substitute into the formula.  We get

Therefore, the midpoint is (-2, 4).

Example Question #664 : Equations Of Lines

Find the midpoint of a line segment with endpoints of (-2, 0) and (-6, -4).

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the midpoint of a line segment given the endpoints, we will use the following formula:

where  and  are the endpoints given.  

 

Now, we can substitute the points given into the formula.  We get

 

Therefore, the midpoint of the endpoints (-2, 0) and (-6, -4) is (-4, -2).

Example Question #665 : Equations Of Lines

Find the midpoint of the line that contains the following endpoints:

 and 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When finding the midpoint of a line, we use the following formula

where  and  are the endpoints.  

 

Given the points

 and 

we can substitute into the formula.  We get

Example Question #666 : Equations Of Lines

Find the midpoint of the line containing the following endpoints:

 and 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When finding the midpoint of a line, we use the following formula

where  and  are the endpoints.  

 

Given the points

 and 

we can substitute into the formula.  We get

Example Question #661 : Equations Of Lines

Find the midpoint of the line segment containing the two points 

 and 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the midpoint we follow the formula

Plugging in the points  and  for  and 

and we get

Example Question #661 : Equations Of Lines

A line is connected by points  and  on a graph.  What is the midpoint?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Write the midpoint formula.

Let  and .

Substitute the given points.

Simplify the coordinate.

The answer is:  

Example Question #668 : Equations Of Lines

Find the midpoint between the following two endpoints:  and .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The midpoint formula is . All we need to do is add the x-values and divide by 2, then add the y-values and divide by 2. This leaves us with a midpoint of .

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