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The distance from a point C to the line AB is the length of the segment from C to AB?
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y ago
That is correct. The distance from a point C to a line AB is the length of the perpendicular segment drawn from point C to line AB. This forms a right angle, creating a right triangle with the segment as the hypotenuse. The length of this perpendicular segment is the shortest distance from the point to the line.
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How does a line segment look like?
A line segment is a straight path that connects two points. It is finite in length and does not extend infinitely in both directions, unlike a line. A line segment is commonly represented by a line with a start point and an end point.
What is the mid point?
The midpoint is the point that divides a line segment into two equal parts. It is equidistant from the endpoints of the line segment.
A finite part of a line?
Technically, in geometry, there is no such thing. By definition, a line is infinite. A "line segment" is a finite portion of a line. In everyday speech, people might sometimes refer to a line segment as a finite line. But if you said this on a math test, you would fail the test.
A line segment with one endpoint at the center of a circle?
This is the radius of the circle. It connects the center of the circle to any point on the circumference. The length of the radius is constant for a given circle.
Which are the examples and non examples of radius in math?
Examples of a radius in math include the line segment from the center to a point on a circle, the distance from the center to the edge of a sphere, or the distance from the center to a point on a cone's base. Non-examples could be any line that doesn't go from the center of a circle to its edge or any measurement that doesn't start at the center of a sphere and reach its surface.
Which of these is equal to the distance from a point to a line?
the length of a perpendicular segment from the point to the line
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.
What is the distance between the endpoints of a line segment?
This is the length of the segment.
The length of the segment from a point C to the line AB gives the distance from the point C to the line AB?
perpendicular by Deviin Mayweather of Boyd Anderson
To find the distance from a point C to the line AB you must find the length of the segment from C to AB?
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What is the length of a line segment?
The length of a line segment is called the distance. To find the distance, you need to know the coordinate of its endpoints given as (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) and the distance formula.
How is the midpoint of a segment different from the length of a segment?
Mostly because, assuming it just one segment, a midpoint by definition (mid- means middle) is the point at the exact middle of a line segment; whereas the length of the segment is the entire length of the segment. Pretty much, a midpoint is a point in the middle of the line, the length is the measurement of the same line.
Is a taut piece of thread a point line line segment ray or plane?
None of them since a thread has a finite length and finite width. A point has neither length nor width whereas a line, line segment and ray do not have any width. A plane has infinite length and width. The nearest approximation is a line segment.
A line segment that connects the center of a circle to a point on the circle?
what about such a line segment? the length of such a segment is called the radius. the area of the circle is pi*the length of this segment squared the circumference is 2*pi*the length of this segment
What is a point equal distance from the end points of a line?
The point that is equal distance from the endpoints of a line segment is the midpoint.
What is a point that divides a line segment into two segments of equal length?
A point that divides a segment into two segments of equal length is a midpoint.
What are you caculating using the distance formula?
You are calculating the length of a line segment
