Distance
What does the word “distance” mean in math and in real life?
The length of an object or travel
What does the midpoint represent?
The point exactly halfway between two endpoints.
A car drives 10 miles east from home. How far is the car from home?
10 miles
You have a line segment that starts at 0 and ends at 10 on a number line. What number is exactly in the middle?
5
According to the Sheb Wooley song lyric, this creature is a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' what?
Purple People Eater
If two points are in the same location, what is their distance?
Zero
If both endpoints are the same point, what is the midpoint?
The same point
Maria walks 3 miles to the store and then 3 miles back home. What total distance did she walk?
A straight road runs from a sign at 4 miles to another sign at 20 miles. A rest area is built halfway between the two signs. At what mile marker is the rest area located?
12 miles
How many bones are in the average human skeleton?
206
What is the distance formula?
d=√(x₂-x₁)²+(y₂-y₁)²
What is the midpoint formula?
M(((x₁+x₂)/2),((y₁+y₂)/2)))
Two friends live on the same street. One lives at house number 2, and the other lives at house number 10. What is the distance between their houses?
8
A road trip from Chicago to St. Louis is 300 miles long. After 2 hours, you’ve driven 120 miles. Are you past the halfway point of the trip, not there yet, or exactly at it?
You’re not at the halfway point yet — halfway would be 150 miles, and you’ve only gone 120 miles.
“Ghostface” is a serial killer from what movie franchise?
Scream
What is the distance between (8,11) and (8,4)?
7
Given the points A and B where A is at coordinates ( 2,-5 ) and B is at coordinates ( -3,-7 ) on the line segment AB, find the midpoint of AB.
(-.5,-6)
A delivery truck drives from a warehouse in Buffalo to a store in Rochester. On a map, Buffalo is located at (2, 4) and Rochester is at (7, 8). How far apart are the two cities?
64 units
What U.S. city is known as the “Witchcraft Capital?”
Salem, Massachusetts
Given the points A and B where A is at coordinates ( 2, -5 ) and B is at coordinates ( -3, -7 ) on the line segment AB, find the length of AB.
√29 or 5.39
Find the midpoint of the line segment AB where point A is at ( 0, 2 ) and point B is at ( -1, - 4 ).
(-.5,-1)
A rescue helicopter is sent from a base at coordinate (3, 2) to help a hiker at (9, 10). Each grid unit on the map equals 5 miles. About how many miles must the helicopter travel to reach the hiker?
50 miles
Henry just got out of school and he can either go to the library or to the mall. If the two places are equidistances from the school, the mall is at (9,2) and the school is at (3,4), where is the library located at?
(-3,6)
From top to bottom, what are the three colors in candy corn?
White, orange, yellow