SOLUTION: M is between points C and Q. CM=17 and CQ=21. What is MQ?

Question 1045688: M is between points C and Q. CM=17 and CQ=21.
What is MQ?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The technically correct answer to the question as you posed it is "MQ is a line segment with endpoints M and Q". However, I suspect that you actually meant to ask "What is the measure of segment MQ?" which you might have abbreviated by saying "What is mMQ?".

mCM + mMQ = mCQ, so mMQ = mCQ - mCM.

Just substitute the given values and do the arithmetic.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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