Re: Need help with a problem, is this a place to ask?

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:44:25 GMT, Elmer <nylicens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Trying to help a friend working on a GED test, they ran into a question =
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>the distance formula. The length of the line was given as were 3 of its =
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>coordinates, and the problem was to find the unknown point.
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>Graphing it out was easy, but is there a way to do it strictly using the=
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>distance formula?

I'll assume you're talking about the distance formula

   d^2 =3D (x2 - x1)^2 + (y2 - y1)^2

You say you're given values for all the variables except for one.
So, plug in the numbers and solve for the one unknown that remains.
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