Question

find the midpoint of the segment of (-8,-7) and (-7,-8) enter coordinates as ordered pair, answer must be in fraction

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} \text{The coordinates of the midpoints are;} \\ ((-15)/(2),(-15)/(2)) \end{gathered}`

Here, we want to find the coordinates of the midpoint of the segment that connects the two points

To calculate this, we are going to use the midpoint formula

Mathematically, we have the midpoint formula as follows;

`(x,y)\text{ =( }((x_1+x_2))/(2),((y_2+y_1))/(2))`

with respect to the question, we have the individual coordinates as follows;

`\begin{gathered} (x_1,y_1)=(-8,-7)_{}_{} \\ (x_2,y_2)\text{ = (-7,-8)} \end{gathered}`

Substituting these points, we have that;

`\begin{gathered} (x,y)\text{ = }(-8-7)/(2),(-7-8)/(2) \\ \\ (x,y)\text{ = (}(-15)/(2),(-15)/(2)) \end{gathered}`