document.write( "Question 918922: ABCD is a trapezoid. E is the midpoint oc CD, and F is the midpoint of AB. If CD is 24, what is the length of CE? AD=16, and EF=12. How would i calculate the answer? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "You've got something wrong.  It's too easy.  The answer is immediately 12.\r\n" );
document.write( "Look what you wrote and notice the words in rede:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now let's just look only at your red words, nothing else:\r\n" );
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document.write( "See? You can forget the trapezoid and all the other letters and numbers.\r\n" );
document.write( "Obviously if E is the midpoint of CD, and CD is 24, CE is going to be\r\n" );
document.write( "half of CD, or 12.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That COULDN'T possibly have been what you were asked.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Either fix it and repost, or tell me what it should be in the thank-you\r\n" );
document.write( "note below.\r\n" );
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