Question

If line segment BA is a midsegment of triangle XYZ, find x.
A.5 B.6 C.10 D.12

Answer 1

my answer is 5

Answer 2

Why is 5 your answer?

Answer 3

because thats the correct answer?

Answer 4

is 5 the length of the segment or the value of x?

Answer 5

i did an equation using the numbers and the answer i got was 5. is 5 not the right answer?

Answer 6

What equation did you set up?

Answer 7

was my equation wrong?

Answer 8

If a segment is the mid-segment of a triangle, then its length will be half the base. In this case YZ, the base equals 10. Therefore, the mid-segment, AB = 5

But AB = x - 1

so we need to solve
x - 1 = 5

Answer 9

6

Answer 10

There you go...

Answer 11

ohhhh... thanks. :-)