City wants to place 3 trashcans along a walkway, find the coordinates of the points at which the trashcans will be placed, plot them.

Question

School: (-8,6) Library: (-8,-2) needs to be in the middle of them equally

Answer 1

Assuming the cans are not at the endpoints (poorly worded problem)

Draw and label of diagram!

Distance from -2 to 6 is 8.

8 / 4 = 2

Cans at

(-8, 0), (-8, 2), (-8, 4)