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January 26, 2015

# Homework Help: Geometry

Posted by John on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 7:09pm.

The value of y that minimizes the sum of the two distances from (3,5) to (1,y) and from (1,y) to (4,9) can be written as \frac{a}{b} where a and b are coprime positive integers. Find a + b.

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