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ACT Aspire Math: Solving for x when It's in the Denominator
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ACT Aspire Math: Comparing Cost per Pound of Hello Kitty Candy
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At the local candy store down the street, three pounds of Hello Kitty gummy treats cost $6.42. At the candy store across town, five pounds of Hello...

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ACT Aspire Math: Finding the Midpoint on a Graph 6 Views


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What is the midpoint of the two points shown in the graph?


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All right Math drill people Here's a graph What's the

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midpoint of the two points right here What's the midpoint

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of p and q We'll find the midpoint between two

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points x one Why wanna next to dwight to use

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the midpoint formula This thing that formula basically lets you

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add up the distance between the two x coordinates right

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there x one plus x two Then it cuts it

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in half by dividing by two So you confined the

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x coordinate that fall smack dab in the middle and

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also lets you do the same for the y coordinates

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So from the graph we find that pee is well

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negative six and eight to five and q It's for

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negative three So just plug in chug and we get

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this thing which is negative six plus four over two

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and then negative five minus three over two which is

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negative to over two and negative eight over to which

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the same as negative one negative for that's the midpoint

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It's b

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