# Math Help - midpoint issue

1. ## midpoint issue

Hi;
Can someone just tell me the midpoint of

-pi/6 and 5pi/6

Thanks.

2. ## Re: midpoint issue

Originally Posted by anthonye
Hi;
Can someone just tell me the midpoint of

-pi/6 and 5pi/6

Thanks.
Their midpoint is the same as their mean in this case so add them and divide by 2. You should get $\frac{\pi}{3}$

3. ## Re: midpoint issue

Yeah thanks thats what I get. the web gets pi/2 thought I was right.

4. ## Re: midpoint issue

so in this case pi/3 and 5pi/7 I get 7pi/12.

5. ## Re: midpoint issue

Originally Posted by anthonye
so in this case pi/3 and 5pi/7 I get 7pi/12.
I get $\dfrac{11\pi}{21}$. I'm not sure how you got to twelfths from twenty-firsts (21 being the LCD of 3 and 7)

Spoiler:
$\dfrac{1}{2}\left(\frac{\pi}{3} \cdot \frac{7}{7} + \frac{5\pi}{7} \cdot \dfrac{3}{3} \right) = \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\frac{7\pi}{21} + \frac{15\pi}{21}\right) = \dfrac{1}{2} \cdot \dfrac{22\pi}{21} = \dfrac{11\pi}{21}$

More generally lets say you have a line between $a$ and $b$ and you want to find the midpoint (we'll call this $c$). By definition the midpoint (c) is equidistant from either end (a and b). Thus $b - c = c - a$.

With a little bit of manipulation: $b+a = 2c$ and $c = \dfrac{b+a}{2}$. This is the same as the (arithmetic) mean of a and b.

6. ## Re: midpoint issue

Originally Posted by anthonye
Yeah thanks thats what I get. the web gets pi/2 thought I was right.
Seems to be a sign mistake because: $\frac{+\frac \pi6+\frac56 \pi}2=\frac \pi2$

Originally Posted by anthonye
so in this case pi/3 and 5pi/7 I get 7pi/12.
How did you get this result?

$\frac{\frac \pi3 + \frac57 \pi}2=\frac{\frac7{21} \pi+\frac{15}{21} \pi}2$

which will never yields your result.

7. ## Re: midpoint issue

Oops sorry wrote it wrong it should be

pi/3 and 5pi/6 gives 7pi/6 then dived by 2 for midpoint 7pi/12.

8. ## Re: midpoint issue

Originally Posted by anthonye
Oops sorry wrote it wrong it should be

pi/3 and 5pi/6 gives 7pi/6 then dived by 2 for midpoint 7pi/12.
Yes, that's right

Thanks.

10. ## Re: midpoint issue

This is all to do with setting up the axis for a sing graph when my midpoint is pi/3.

this is the first point after the origin should'nt it be pi/6 to match the phase shift which is -pi/6.

11. ## Re: midpoint issue

I am right about the phase shift.

y=3sin2(x + pi/6).

Thanks.

12. ## Re: midpoint issue

Originally Posted by anthonye
Yeah thanks thats what I get. the web gets pi/2 thought I was right.
$\pi/2$ is the midpoint of + $\pi/6$ and $5\pi/6$.