What's a formula to uncover a way to divide a line segment into three equal parts. What would the formula look like?

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anonymous · Answer

@some_someone ?

anonymous · Answer

@satellite73 ?

anonymous · Answer

@Luigi0210 lol sorry to bother you! /.\

anonymous · Answer

Any clues at all?

luigi0210 · Answer

Nope, sorry :/

anonymous · Answer

oh its fine I can try asking someone else:)

anonymous · Answer

@dan815

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

do you mean find the length of each piece? or actually trisect the segment through a geometric construction?

anonymous · Answer

I think to find the length of each piece. The exact questions says: Now that you know how to find the midpoint from two endpoints, tweak your understanding of the formula to uncover a way to divide a line segment in to three equal parts. What would the formula look like?

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

One way to do it is to divide the horizontal component of the length by 3

this will give you how far to space the points out in a horizontal sense

you must do the same for the vertical component as well

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

so say you had this segment

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jim_thompson5910 · Answer

draw in the horizontal and vertical components

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