Big Ideas Math Geometry, 2014
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2. Measuring and Constructing Segments
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Exercise 19 Page 16

Find with the Segment Addition Postulate. Note that we are given the length of the longer segment.

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To find we should use the Segment Addition Postulate. This postulate tells us that, if we have a point between two points, we can add the lengths of the two smaller segments to find the longer segment length. In our case, is between and so is the sum of and
From the diagram, we know that the length is  and the length is Now, we can use this to calculate
The length is