A bag contains yellow marbles and red marbles, 19 in total. The number of yellow marbles is 5 less than 3 times the number of re
d marbles. How many yellow marbles are there?
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To get the midsegment, namely HN, well, we need H and N
hmm so.... notice the picture you have there, is just an "isosceles trapezoid", namely, it has two equal sides, the left and right one, namely JL and KM
the midpoint of JL is H and the midpoint of KM is N
thus
![\bf \begin{array}{lllll} &x_1&y_1&x_2&y_2\\ % (a,b) K&({{ 4q}}\quad ,&{{ 4n}})\quad % (c,d) M&({{ 4p}}\quad ,&{{ 0}}) \end{array}\qquad % coordinates of midpoint \left(\cfrac{4p+4q}{2}\quad ,\quad \cfrac{0+4n}{2} \right) \\\\\\ \left( \cfrac{2(2p+2q)}{2},\cfrac{4n}{2} \right)\implies \boxed{[(2p+2q), 2n]\impliedby N}\\\\ -----------------------------\\\\](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5Cbf%20%5Cbegin%7Barray%7D%7Blllll%7D%0A%26x_1%26y_1%26x_2%26y_2%5C%5C%0A%25%20%20%28a%2Cb%29%0AK%26%28%7B%7B%204q%7D%7D%5Cquad%20%2C%26%7B%7B%204n%7D%7D%29%5Cquad%20%0A%25%20%20%28c%2Cd%29%0AM%26%28%7B%7B%204p%7D%7D%5Cquad%20%2C%26%7B%7B%200%7D%7D%29%0A%5Cend%7Barray%7D%5Cqquad%0A%25%20%20%20coordinates%20of%20midpoint%20%0A%5Cleft%28%5Ccfrac%7B4p%2B4q%7D%7B2%7D%5Cquad%20%2C%5Cquad%20%5Ccfrac%7B0%2B4n%7D%7B2%7D%20%5Cright%29%0A%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%0A%5Cleft%28%20%5Ccfrac%7B2%282p%2B2q%29%7D%7B2%7D%2C%5Ccfrac%7B4n%7D%7B2%7D%20%5Cright%29%5Cimplies%20%5Cboxed%7B%5B%282p%2B2q%29%2C%202n%5D%5Cimpliedby%20N%7D%5C%5C%5C%5C%0A-----------------------------%5C%5C%5C%5C)
hmm so.... notice the picture you have there, is just an "isosceles trapezoid", namely, it has two equal sides, the left and right one, namely JL and KM
the midpoint of JL is H and the midpoint of KM is N
thus