Can someone please guide me along to do this problem Point A, located at (-8, 3), is the location of the storage closet and point C, located at (12, -4), is the director's office. Find point B, the location of the art supplies, if it is (2/5) the distance from point A to point C.

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would I multiply the points and then divide by 2/5 I am a bit confused I would appreciate help thank you

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lol it's you again sorry I am proving how horrible I am on everything involving math

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it is okay :) i think in here we will get the distance between a and c

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then cut it into 5 parts and find the b point

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Okay that doesn't sound to bad so we would multiply A and C or subtract them and the divide it into 5 parts? is that even close... i'm trying to base it off what we just did but sometimes there are formulas and thats when I get stumped

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Okay :o

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so I fill in mx2+nx1 with B

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the points of B

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m=2,n=3
x1=-8,y1=3
x2=12
y2=-4

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here denominator is m+n=2+3=5

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So I would fill it in as 
X= mx2+nx1/m+n

2x2+3x1/2+3

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$$x=\frac{ 2*12+3*-8 }{ 2+3 }=\frac{ 24-24 }{ 5 }=\frac{ 0 }{5 }=0$$
similarly find y

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Okay I will try one second thank you