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Can u help me find the centroid of this triangle ?

Can u help me find the centroid of this triangle ?-example-1
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The coordinates of the centroid are given by:


\begin{gathered} C=(xc,yc) \\ xc=(Ax+Bx+Cx)/(3) \\ yc=(Ay+By+Cy)/(3) \end{gathered}

Therefore:


\begin{gathered} xc=(4+2+8)/(3)=(14)/(3) \\ yc=(8+0-4)/(3)=(4)/(3) \end{gathered}

The coordinates of the centroid are:


C=((14)/(3),(4)/(3))

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