Jayda's house is located at (1, 5). She can walk in a straight line to get to Cristian's house. A fast-food restaurant is located at (7, 2) and partitions the way from Jayda's house to Cristian's house by a ratio of 3:1. Find the coordinate of Cristian's house.

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carmelle · Answer

um... please don't answer if you don't know/wont help me. but i did graph it...

These are the options btw:

(3, 4)
 (5, 3)
 (9, 1)  
 (11, 0)

snowflake0531 · Answer

As you can see on the graph.. the coordinates are linear, which makes it much easier

the distance from Jayda's to the restaurant compared to Jayda's to Cristian's is 3:1
what this means is that Cristian's house is a third of the distance

carmelle · Answer

oh so its (3,4)?

snowflake0531 · Answer

nono, I'm sorry I read that wrong

carmelle · Answer

oh ok, its fine :)

snowflake0531 · Answer

partitions the way from Jayda's house to Cristian's house by a ratio of 3:1 means that the location of the restaurant divides up the distance from Jayda's to Cristian's house, with three units on one side, one unit on the other

snowflake0531 · Answer

And looking at your graph, from Jayda's house to the restaurant is three units, so Cristian's house the unit to the left... (9,1)

carmelle · Answer

ohhh- ok i get it now. tysm snow!!

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