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Question 783813: Hello! :) Please answer my question. These are the directions: Find the other endpoint of the line segment with the given endpoint and midpoint.
Okay, so I have gotten a bunch of the questions, but now there are some with fractions involved. This is the one I need help with:
Endpoint: (5/3, 1 2/11) Midpoint: ( 1 7/12, 4 2/3)
The numbers spaced from the fraction are mixed numbers. I have found that in the other problems I didn't need the midpoint.
Thank you very much. Please reply soon because I have a lot of homework to do since I'm in high school. Thanks again! :)
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39726)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Your solution processes will be exactly the same no matter if you have mixed-number values or integer-only values. Plug you given values into the appropriate places in the midpoint formula and solve.
With these defining your problem:
Endpoint: (5/3, 1 2/11) Midpoint: ( 1 7/12, 4 2/3)
You are looking for some point, (x,y), so that
 and 
Naturally you must convert the mixed numbers into improper fractions before you can proceed much from these two equations.
Answer by MathTherapy(10712)  (Show Source):
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