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ACT Aspire Math: Finding the Midpoint on a Graph 6 Views


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What is the midpoint of the two points shown in the graph?


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00:03

All right Math drill people Here's a graph What's the

00:06

midpoint of the two points right here What's the midpoint

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of p and q We'll find the midpoint between two

00:14

points x one Why wanna next to dwight to use

00:17

the midpoint formula This thing that formula basically lets you

00:21

add up the distance between the two x coordinates right

00:23

there x one plus x two Then it cuts it

00:25

in half by dividing by two So you confined the

00:27

x coordinate that fall smack dab in the middle and

00:30

also lets you do the same for the y coordinates

00:32

So from the graph we find that pee is well

00:35

negative six and eight to five and q It's for

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negative three So just plug in chug and we get

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this thing which is negative six plus four over two

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and then negative five minus three over two which is

00:45

negative to over two and negative eight over to which

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the same as negative one negative for that's the midpoint

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It's b

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