Question

Given points G(2,10) and H(-6,-10), find the coordinates of the midpoint

Answer 1

Answer:

(-2,0)

Step-by-step explanation:

We can just use the formula for finding the midpoint, as shown below:

$(x_{m},y_{m}) = (\frac{x_{1} +x_{2}}{2} , \frac{y_{1} +y_{2}}{2})$

So i.e. we just take the average of the two x-coordinates, and similarly, the average of the two y-coordinates.

This gives:

midpoint =  ((2+ -6)/2 , (10 +-10)/2)

               = (-2, 0)