Midpoint-Of-A-Line Wjec-Eduqas Foundation

Midpoint of a line

How do I find the midpoint of a line?

• The midpoint of a line will be the same distance from both endpoints

• You can think of a midpoint as being the average (mean) of two coordinates

• The midpoint of  and is

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