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Please help....Gina wrote the following paragraph to prove that the segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side:

Please helpGina wrote the following paragraph to prove that the segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side class=

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14-08-2017

Check the picture of the proof Gina made.

All the steps are perfectly fine except that the coordinates of D and E are found by the Midpoint formula, not distance formula.

Remark:

The Distance formula is used to find the length of the segment formed between 2 points.

Whereas, the Midpoint formula is used to find the coordinates of the midpoint of a segment formed by 2 points.

Answer: c

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