In Right
, right angled at
,
is the midpoint of
and
is the midpoint of a line segment
as shown in the figure above. If
and
, then what is the length of
?
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Define i and j to be the unit vectors in the horizontal and vertical directions respectively. Also let length B D = a and length B E = b .
F G = F E + E C + C G F G = 2 1 D E + E C + 2 1 C A F G = 2 1 ( − a i + b j ) + ( 3 j ) + 2 1 ( ( a + 4 ) i − ( b + 3 ) j ) 2 F G = − a i + b j + 6 j + a i + 4 i − b j − 3 j 2 F G = 4 i + 3 j F G = 2 i + 2 3 j ∣ F G ∣ = 2 2 + ( 2 3 ) 2 ∣ F G ∣ = 2 5 = 2 . 5