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Find the center of the circle with a diameter that has endpoints (−10,10) and (5,−8) .

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to find the center, we need to find the midpoint between these two points, the equation is:


((x_1+x_2)/(2),(y_1+y_2)/(2))

so in this case:


\begin{gathered} ((-10+5)/(2),(10-8)/(2)) \\ ((-5)/(2),1)\text{ or (-2.5,1)} \end{gathered}

so the answer is: the center is in (-2.5,1)

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