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Geometry worksheet to help students learn to calculate lengths of line segments on a line using addition and subtraction.
Geometry worksheet to help students learn to calculate lengths of line segments on a line by writing and solving equations.
​Assignment 1.13​

Addition and Subtraction of Line Segment Lengths

 
Objectives
Calculate lengths of line segments determined by sets of collinear points.
 
Write and solve equations to find line segment lengths determined by sets of collinear points.
 
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About Geometry Worksheet Assignment 1.13:

 

Assignment 1.13 is an introduction to addition and subtraction of line segment lengths for line segments with collinear endpoints.

 

Prerequisite Skills: Identify lengths of line segments (Assignment 1.12).  Solve algebraic equations with one variable.  Evaluate algebraic expressions. 

 

Postulate:  For collinear points A, B, and C with point C between A and B, AC + CB = AB.

 

                          A                                     C                                                   B

 

 

 

 

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