What is the midpoint of the segment shown below
2 answers:
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Step 1: Assign variable for the unknown that you need to find.
Step 2: List the given details
Distance between you and your friend is 12 miles. It means the total distance traveled by you by walk and your friend using bicycle when both travel towards each other to meet in 't' hours
Equation 1:
Your Walking rate and your friends Cycling rate is given below:
Step 3: Set up an equation using the relationship between distance, time and rate.
Substituting the above in equation 1
Distance traveled by you by walking from home and distance travelled by your friend in cycle in 0.8 hours is given below:
I hate rounding.
Let's call the diagonal x. It's the hypotenuse of the right triangle whose legs are the rectangle sides.
According to the problem we have a length x-4 and a width x-5 and an area
82 = (x-4)(x-5)
82 = x^2 - 9x + 20
0 = x^2 - 9x - 62
That one doesn't seem to factor so we go to the quadratic formula
Only the positive value makes any sense for this problem, so we conclude
That's the exact answer. Did I mention I hate rounding? That's about
x = 13.6 meters
Answer: 13.6
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It's not clear to me this problem is consistent. By the Pythagorean Theorem the diagonal satisfies
which works out to
That's not consistent with the first answer; this problem really has no solution. Tell your teacher to get better material.