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Posted by Helen on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 9:03pm.

A diameter of circle that has endpoints (-4,12) and (8,-2), as shown below, is in the standard (x,y) coordinate plane. What point is the center of the circle? Explain

math - Reiny, Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 9:35pm
the centre would be the midpoint of the given endpoints of the diameter.

so use the formula for midpoint to find the centre

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