Question

Find the midpoint of a line segment starting from the origin and ending at (–8, 0).

Question 6 options:

A)

(0, 0)

B)

(–16, 0)

C)

(0, –4)

D)

(–4, 0)

Answer 1

Option D

-4, 0

Explanation:

We will first of all identify the coordinates we are dealing with here.

The coordinates for this question (x,y) are: (0,0) and (-8,0)

The next thing we will do is get the formula for finding mid points of line segments.

This is
`((x_(1)+x_(2))/(2), )((y_(1)+y_(2))/(2), )`

Next we will substitute the values of x 1 ,x 2, y 1, and y 2 into the equation.

We will have

`((0+(-8))/(2), )((0+0)/(2), )=(-4, 0)`

Hence the coordinates of the midpoint is (-4,0)