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Basic geometry question: Anybody able to give a down to earth explanation of a POINT, a LINE, a RAY and a SEGMENT?

User Thom Ives
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Answer:

A point is a coordinate pair

A ray is a starting point but no end point (so it goes on forever)

A segment is a line connecting two points

(I'm in 9th still learning-ish)

User Vadim Ferderer
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