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2. Measuring and Constructing Segments
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Exercise 21 Page 393

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