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Explain what it means to bisect a segment. Why is it impossible to bisect a line?

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To bisect a segment means to cut through the segment's midpoint. You can't bisect a line, because a line goes on forever = no midpoint. and a line has a width of zero so it is impossibl to bisect it

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