Find the midpoint of the line segment joining the points P1 and P2.

Question

P1 = (k,b)

P2 = (0,0)

M =

Type an ordered pair

Answer 1

Generally, if you have the coordinates of 2 points (x₁,y₁) and (x₂,y₂), their midpoint can be found by finding the averages of their x's and y's.

That means that you can find the x coordinate of the midpoint by calculating (x₁ + x₂)/2

And the y coordinate by calculating (y₁ + y₂)/2

Specific to this case, since one of our points is (0,0), you can just halve the coordinates to the other point, since that'll get you halfway between (0,0) and (k,b)

I.e. (k/2, b/2)

Answer 2

for two points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) the midpoint is

((x1 + x2)/2, (y1 + y2)/2)