Dwight has sold 22 cars and he sells 2 each week.
jim has sold 8 cars and he can sell 4 a week.
how many weeks will it take jim to catch up with dwight?

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for finding the midpoint of any given 2 pair of points simply add the respective x coordinates with other x coordinate and the y coordinate with other y coordinate and divide them by 2

in your question it will be :

(3+1)/2 for the x coordinate of mid point i.e 2

[8+(-4)]/2 for the y coordinate of midpoint i.e 2

so coordinates of mid point of points (3,8) and (1,-4) will be (2,2)