document.write( "Question 214006: You are given an endpoint and the midpoint of a line segment. Find the coordinates of the other endpoint. Each midpoint is denoted by M(x, y)
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You are given an endpoint and the midpoint of a line segment. Find the coordinates of the other endpoint. Each midpoint is denoted by M(x, y)\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Let (x,y) be the other endpoint. Then for this example the midpoint is calculated by averaging the x and y coordinates of the endpoints. That is,\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"-2=x%2B5\" and \"0=y%2B7\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28-7%2B5%29%2F2=-1\" is the x-coordinate for the midpoint.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28-7%2B7%29%2F2=0\" is the y-coordinate for the midpoint.\r
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