Finding the Length of a Line Segment
At about the 0:55 mark, the teacher says 4-1.6 is going to give me 3.4; he should have said 2.4.
In this lesson, you will learn how to find the length of a line segment given the whole and part of it. By subtracting the known part from the known whole, you can determine the missing length of the segment. This method involves using basic arithmetic and is a useful skill for many real-world applications, such as measuring distances or calculating dimensions in construction.
Finding the length of a segment given the whole and part
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- How long is segment AB if line segment AC is 4 meters long, and line segment BC is 1.6 meters long?
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Staff Review
This lesson shows how to find the length of part of a line segment when you know how long the entire line segment is, and you know how long the other part of the line segment is.
