Question

What is the midpoint of the segment shown below?

Answer 1

A

Explanation:

Midpoints are found by averaging the coordinates.

Averaging " add all the numbers and divide by the number of numbers.

Here, there are only 2 numbers. So, you divide by 2.

(1,2) (1,-5)

`(1 +1)/(2)` ,
`(2 + (-5))/(2)`

`(2)/(2)` ,
`(-3)/(2)`

(1,
`(-3)/(2)` )