is a directed segment with endpoints A(2,2) and B(14,14). In two or more complete sentences, explain how you would verify that Point X, with a coordinate of (6,6), divides in a 1:2 ratio?

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is a directed segment with endpoints A(2,2) and B(14,14). In two or more complete sentences, explain how you would verify that Point X, with a coordinate of (6,6), divides  in a 1:2 ratio?

Mercury · Answer

I'm guessing that the missing parts are supposed to be segment AB?

anyway, this is kind of hard to explain without giving it away, but since point X is supposed to divide AB into a 1:2 ratio segment, you'd show through the distance formula that AX is 1/2 the length of XB