Homework Help: math

Posted by usha on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 11:14pm.

Why can not a line segment have more than one midpoint

Because the definition of a line segment is a segment with two endpoints. If there are only two endpoints then there can only be one middle, hence one midpoint.

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