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ACT Aspire Math: Finding the Midpoint of a Vertical Line 8 Views


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What is the midpoint of the line segment shown in the graph?


Transcript

00:03

Okay match members we get more graphs for you Here

00:06

we go What is the midpoint of the line segment

00:09

shown in the graph Right here Midpoint Well we know

00:15

you came armed with the midpoint formula and everything but

00:17

that's kind of like bringing a hippo to a water

00:20

balloon fight peak Because well there's an easier way to

00:22

get things done here When a line segment is vertical

00:25

or horizontal we confined its mid point without using the

00:28

midpoint formula Wu of the who The graph shows that

00:32

this segment is fourteen units long so you could have

00:35

just counted them So the midpoint is just fourteen over

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two or seven seven units down from the top of

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the top of the segment is the point for nine

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and we just move seven units down from there So

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takes us to the point four to the midpoint is 00:00:49.803 --> [endTime] be later hippo No hard feelings right

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