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What is the gradient of a line segment between the point (23) and (47)?
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Points: (2, 3) and (4, 7)
Gradient or slope: change in y/change in x = (7-3)/(4-2) = 4/2 = 2
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What is the shortest distance between a point and a line?
The length of a line segment that starts at the point and is perpendicular to the original line.
How are a line segment and a ray different?
A line segment is a line between two points, while rays only has one end point and goes infinitely from that point in a direction.
A line is the locus of points which what?
A line is the locus of points such that the gradient (slope) between that point and one fixed point in the plane is a constant. Technically, that definition does not include a vertical line because its gradient is not defined! You could get around that this by requiring that either the gradient is a constant or, if it is undefined, then the inverse gradient (dx/dy) is constant.
What is the definition of a line segment?
A line segment is a part of a line that is bounded by two end points, and contains every point on the line between its end points.
The midpoint of a line segment is the point halfway between its endpoint?
Yes
What do you call a line that is slanted with a point at each end?
A line segment with a finite, non-zero gradient.
What point halfway between two endpoints of a line segment is a?
It is known as the midpoint of the line segment
Is a segment a point?
a line segment is not a point but a series of points between two definite end points
What is the shortest distance between a point and a line?
The length of a line segment that starts at the point and is perpendicular to the original line.
How many possibilities are there in point-segment relations?
Probably three:The point is not on the segment nor the corresponding line,The point is in the line segment,The point is not in the line segment as given but would be if the segment were extended.
How are a line segment and a ray different?
A line segment is a line between two points, while rays only has one end point and goes infinitely from that point in a direction.
Does a line segment have two midpoints?
No. The midpoint of a line segment is the single point exactly halfway between each endpoint.
A line is the locus of points which what?
A line is the locus of points such that the gradient (slope) between that point and one fixed point in the plane is a constant. Technically, that definition does not include a vertical line because its gradient is not defined! You could get around that this by requiring that either the gradient is a constant or, if it is undefined, then the inverse gradient (dx/dy) is constant.
What is the definition of a line segment?
A line segment is a part of a line that is bounded by two end points, and contains every point on the line between its end points.
What is the point halfway between two endpoints of a line segment?
It is the midpoint
The midpoint of a line segment is the point halfway between its endpoint?
Yes
What is the different between a perpendicular bisector and a midpoint?
A midpoint is a point. It's the point exactly halfway between the endsof a line segment.A perpendicular bisector is a line. It's the line that passes through themidpoint of the segment, and is perpendicular to the segment.
