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Answer:

-3/2, -1

Step-by-step explanation:

Each coordinate contains one [tex]x[/tex] value and one [tex]y[/tex] value, [tex](x,y)[/tex].

If we work out the midpoint of each of these individually, it makes it much easier to find the midpoint of the line.

Let's take the [tex]x[/tex] values first. Our first  [tex]x[/tex] value is -4 and our second [tex]x[/tex] value is 1. Imagine the integers between -4 and 1 laid out in a sequence:

[tex]-4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1[/tex]

If you take the middle value of this sequence, you get the midpoint of the [tex]x[/tex] values.

In this case, the middle is between values -2 and -1, leaving us with a midpoint of -1.5. This as a fraction is [tex]-\frac{3}{2}[/tex].

Now let's look at the [tex]y[/tex] values. Our first [tex]y[/tex] value is 2 and our second [tex]y[/tex] value is -4. Again, let's imagine those numbers laid out in a sequence:

[tex]2, 1, 0, -1, -2, -3, -4[/tex]

Here, the middle of these values is -1, and this is the midpoint of the [tex]y[/tex] values.

So if we put these two values in a coordinate, we get the midpoint of the line.

In this case, we get [tex](-\frac{3}{2} ,-1)[/tex].

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