2. What is the x-coordinate of the midpoint between the points
(5,7) and (11,6)?

x- coordinate = 8

Step-by-step explanation:

The x- coordinate of the midpoint is the average of the x- coordinates of the 2 endpoints, that is

= = 8 ← x- coordinate of midpoint

step-by-step explanation:

or

step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!