{"id":134802,"date":"2023-03-21T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=134802"},"modified":"2023-03-21T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:43:40","slug":"find-the-coordinates-of-the-point-which-divides-the-join-of-a%e2%88%9217-and-b4%e2%88%923-in-the-ratio-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/quiz\/find-the-coordinates-of-the-point-which-divides-the-join-of-a%e2%88%9217-and-b4%e2%88%923-in-the-ratio-23","title":{"rendered":"Find the coordinates of the point which divides the join of A(\u22121,7) and B(4,\u22123) in the ratio 2:3."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question :Find the coordinates of the point which divides the join of\u00a0<span aria-hidden=\"true\">A(\u22121,7)<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span aria-hidden=\"true\">B(4,\u22123)<\/span>\u00a0in the ratio\u00a0<span aria-hidden=\"true\">2:3<\/span>.<\/h2>\n<h3>The correct answer :Let the coordinates of the required point be (x, y).<\/h3>\n<h3>Using the section formula, we have:<\/h3>\n<h3>x = [ (3 * (-1)) + (2 * 4) ] \/ (2 + 3) = [ -3 + 8 ] \/ 5 = 1<\/h3>\n<h3>y = [ (3 * 7) + (2 * (-3)) ] \/ (2 + 3) = [ 21 &#8211; 6 ] \/ 5 = 3<\/h3>\n<h3>Therefore, the point which divides the join of A(-1, 7) and B(4, -3) in the ratio 2:3 is (1, 3).<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question :Find the coordinates of the point which divides the join of\u00a0A(\u22121,7)\u00a0and\u00a0B(4,\u22123)\u00a0in the ratio\u00a02:3. The correct answer :Let the coordinates of the required point be (x, y). Using the section formula, we have: x = [ (3 * (-1)) + (2 * 4) ] \/ (2 + 3) = [ -3 + 8 ] \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21842,"featured_media":132233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-134802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quiz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134803,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134802\/revisions\/134803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}