SOLUTION: Consider the line segment in the xy-plane whose left endpoint has coordinates (-1,0) and whose right end point has coordinates (3,0). Let this segment be divided into 1000 congruen

Question 577803: Consider the line segment in the xy-plane whose left endpoint has coordinates (-1,0) and whose right end point has coordinates (3,0). Let this segment be divided into 1000 congruent segments, with points of division marked p1, p2,��, p999, going from left to right. What are the coordinates of p60?

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The length of the segment is the distance between the ends of the segment.
The distance between the ends of the segment is the difference in x coordinates, because the y coordinates are the same. It's

That segment is divided into 1000 congruent segments of length

As the points are labeled p1 through p999 from left to right, from (-1,0) to 3,0), the coordinates for p1 will be
(-1+0.004,0) or (-0.996,0)
The coordinates for p2 will be
(-1+2(0.004),0) or (-0.992,0) and so on.
In general the x-coordinate for pn would be

The y coordinate for all points in the segment is, of course, 0.
For p60, the x coordinate is
.
So, p60 is (-0.76,0).
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